National security laws
President Obama’s uneasy encounters with the law in devising numerous innovative means to prosecute the War on Terror are treated exhaustively in Charlie Savage’s much discussed book, “Power Wars.” This compendious volume is destined to be a landmark in the writing of the period’s history. It also should be seen as a marker of its times as it at once explains how Obama sought legal grounds by which to justify methods that skirt the Constitution and takes at face value the assertions of those who claim to have done a conscientious analysis of the laws and the Constitution without prejudice. Therein lies the heart of the dilemma associated with an account of this kind.
President Obama’s uneasy encounters with the law in devising numerous innovative means to prosecute the War on Terror are treated exhaustively in Charlie Savage’s much discussed book, “Power Wars.” This compendious volume is destined to be a landmark in the writing of the period’s history. It also should be seen as a marker of its times as it at once explains how Obama sought legal grounds by which to justify methods that skirt the Constitution and takes at face value the assertions of those who claim to have done a conscientious analysis of the laws and the Constitution without prejudice. Therein lies the heart of the dilemma associated with an account of this kind.
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