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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Glenn Greenwald on presidents and civil liberties

Posted on 11:20 AM by Unknown
This is a thoughtful piece on how to think about ranking the presidents on their awfulness on civil liberties. There is also lots of good stuff about the excesses of the "war on terror"; many of the comments would apply as well to the "war on drugs".
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