ISN'T THAT TWO GOOD COPS?:

Good Cop, Bad Cop: On counterterrorism, the only difference between Republicans and Obama is rhetorical. (Adam Serwer, March 10, 2011, American Prospect)

The Obama administration kept the Bush-era FBI investigative guidelines, which are more lax on matters of racial and ethnic profiling. The rules allow FBI agents to initiate surveillance without suspicion of criminality, allow domestic intelligence gathering in religious spaces, and even allow agents to gather information on "concentrated ethnic communities."

The UR seemed to have realized two things early on in his presidency: (1) he was in way over his head; and (2), W had done a rather good job. To his credit, Mr. Obama then determined that he'd just try and serve his time as insignificantly as he could, leaving everything virtually unchanged from the way it was handed to him.

Posted by oj at March 14, 2011 2:44 PM
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