Obama has used the tools of the surveillance state judiciously, which makes the situation much worse, because it masks their full power
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Replying to @Pinboard
not trying to pick a fight here, but how can the use of a surveillance state be judicious?
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Replying to @false1001
I mean if you compare the things he could do, with the things he did do, it was very sparingly used. Similar with the drone war
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my point is that sparing use of almost unlimited power creates the misleading impression that that power is constrained
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Replying to @Walshman23
note that I’m not defending or excusing this policy, which I deplore, but trying to reason about why it wasn’t controversial
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Replying to @Pinboard
I completely agree. If Pres X can drone 1 dude, Pres Y can drone 10,000. Apologies if I was not clear there.
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