Re:Apple’s Privacy Fight Tests Relationship with White House
by mindslight on Saturday February 27, 2016 @10:51AM
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> All this is pretty grim coming from a professor of constitutional law. It makes me wonder what he really believes/believed when he entered office.
I recall reading an article describing Obama's inheritance of Bush II's questionable programs. The concern wasn't so much that maybe torturing people (etc) were bad ideas, but how to reform the programs so that they were legitimate under the constitution.
He essentially operates as a constitutional law black hat, searching for bugs which can be exploited to justify the tyrannical status quo.
I recall reading an article describing Obama's inheritance of Bush II's questionable programs. The concern wasn't so much that maybe torturing people (etc) were bad ideas, but how to reform the programs so that they were legitimate under the constitution.
He essentially operates as a constitutional law black hat, searching for bugs which can be exploited to justify the tyrannical status quo.