Hidden deep within the 2014 National defense authorization act are provisions that allow the President to indefinitely detain any American citizen that he and he alone deems a 'threat' to national security and sets up a 'clearing center' that can concentrate all of the US government's massive information on any person deemed so by the President.
George W. Bush didn't have these at the height of the GWOT. Of course GWB couldn't get the IRS to target and harass Democratic party activist groups either.
One of the pretenses of the Democrats and Progs is that they are the avatars of civil liberties. In fact the left are authoritarian statists of the old school. Lenin called it 'Democratic Centralism' - centralized rule in the name of 'the people' while spouting egalitarian rhetoric. Even Nixon didn't have as imperial a presidency as Obama has.
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