“Very little, and not only is it the case that he (Obama) is deconstructing that framework in only symbolic and inconsequential ways but he’s doing the reverse. Which is, he is finding new and often more effective ways to embrace many of those same instruments and to institutionalize them further.”
Glenn Greenwald answers Bill Moyers question regarding Obama’s war on terrorism policy compared to Bush/Cheney. Moyers asked:
…to what extent has President Obama begun to deconstruct that extra legal apparatus, the excessive secrecy, the use of a extra constitutional means of interrogation. To what extent is he undoing the infrastructure of excessive governmental claims that you wrote about those last eight (Bush) years?
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