Power Wars: How Obama Continued Bush's National Security State After Campaigning Against It | Democracy Now!
The imprisonment of foreign citizens at #Guantánamo
is one of several Bush-era policies that continue under Obama’s
presidency. While Obama has closed the CIA’s secret prisons and banned
the harshest of Bush’s torture methods, many others—the drone war,
presidential secrecy, jailing whistleblowers, mass surveillance—either
continue or have even expanded. Watch our interview with Pulitzer
Prize-winner Charlie Savage on his new book, "Power Wars: Inside Obama’s
Post-9/11 Presidency."