What will Obama’s legacy be? | 'According to Jason Furman, “History is going to say he saved us from a second Great Depression.”'

History will turn a blind eye toward his abysmal record via civil liberties then, huh? Wonderful.

Obama approves extension of expiring Patriot Act provisions http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/05/27/congress.patriot.act/index.html?_s=PM:POLITICS

Signs NDAA 2011 (and 2012, and 2013). When signing the 2013 version, he doesn’t object to indefinite detention of Americans despite having done so previously, and despite laying out other objections to the bill. In both 2012 and 2013 he says he’ll veto the defense spending bills over provisions regarding Guantanamo Bay, but signs both nonetheless. http://rt.com/usa/obama-ndaa-detention-president-288/ Allows innocent man to die at Gitmo - [3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/suzanne-nossel/the-death-of-guantanamo_b_1878375.html

Appeals the Federal Court decision that “indefinite detention” is unconstitutional http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/14/usa-security-lawsuit-idINL1E8KEEOP20120914?irpc=932

Kills a 16-year-old American-born US citizen living in Yemen weeks after the boy's father was killed. His administration's rationale? He "should have [had] a far more responsible father" http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/anwar-al-awlakis-family-speaks-out-against-his-sons-deaths/2011/10/17/gIQA8kFssL_story.html

Continues to approve drone strikes that kill thousands of innocent civilians including women and children in Pakistan, Yemen, and other countries that do not want the US intervening; meanwhile, according to the Brookings Institute's Daniel Byman, we are killing 10 civilians for every one mid- to high- level Al Qaeda/Taliban operative. This is particularly disturbing, since now any military-aged male in a strike zone is now officially considered an enemy combatant http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/7361630/One-in-three-killed-by-US-drones-in-Pakistan-is-a-civilian-report-claims.html

Protects Bush’s war crimes as State Secrets http://www.salon.com/2010/09/08/obama_138/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/obama-doj-worse-than-bush http://washingtonindependent.com/33985/in-torture-cases-obama-toes-bush-line http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/us/01nsa.html

Obama engages in a war on whistleblowers http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/31/the-obama-administrations-war-on-whistleblowers/

Grants immunity to CIA torturers http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/31/obama-justice-department-immunity-bush-cia-torturer

Supports intrusive TSA pat-downs and body scans http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/11/20/obama.tsa/index.html

Obama officials demand full, reform-free renewal of Bush-designed FISA Amendments Act, which retroactively immunizes telecom giants for their involvement in Bush’s illegal spying programs and grants vast new powers in the US government to eavesdrop without a warrant. - http://www.salon.com/2012/05/24/warrantless_spying_fight/singleton/

Obama signs FISA renewal without amendment, making warrantless wiretapping legal for another five years http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/30/obama-fisa-warrantless-wiretapping_n_2385690.html

And this is just a small sample. "Pop" History is useless.

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