The Bush-Obama Era

New York Times: “Whatever his ambivalence about what President George W. Bush called a global war, Mr. Obama has used some of the same aggressive powers in the name of guarding national security even, in the view of critics, at the expense of civil liberties. Rather than dismantling Mr. Bush’s approach to national security, Mr. Obama has to some extent validated it and put it on a more sustainable footing.”

Ron Fournier: “Welcome to the era of Bush-Obama, a
16-year span of U.S. history that will be remembered for an
unprecedented erosion of civil liberties and a disregard for
transparency.”