The "war on terror" may be re-branded, but it will never end:
The polices adopted by the Obama administration just over
the last couple of years leave no doubt that they are accelerating, not winding
down, the war apparatus that has been relentlessly strengthened over the last
decade. In the name of the War on Terror, the current president has diluted
decades-old Miranda warnings; codified a new scheme of indefinite detention on
US soil; plotted to relocate Guantanamo to Illinois; increased secrecy,
repression and release-restrictions at the camp; minted a new theory of
presidential assassination powers even for US citizens; renewed the Bush/Cheney
warrantless eavesdropping framework for another five years, as well as the
Patriot Act, without a single reform; and just signed into law all new
restrictions on the release of indefinitely held detainees.
Does that sound to you like a government anticipating the
end of the War on Terror any time soon? Or does it sound like one working
feverishly to make their terrorism-justified powers of detention, surveillance,
killing and secrecy permanent?
-Glenn Greenwald
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