This is even more scary than that article reveals:
The newly released secret laws of the Bush administration - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
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The essence of this document was to declare that George Bush had the authority (a) to deploy the U.S. military inside the U.S., (b) directed at foreign nationals and U.S. citizens alike; (c) unconstrained by any Constitutional limits, including those of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments. It was nothing less than an explicit decree that, when it comes to Presidential power, the Bill of Rights was suspended, even on U.S. soil and as applied to U.S. citizens. And it wasn't only a decree that existed in theory;
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Truly horrifying. The Bush administration literally believed and acted as if we were in a police state from September 11 2001 right up until he left office.
And honestly, if McCain had been elected, this stuff would probably never have come out, and most likely would've continued. Obama isn't doing nearly enough in my opinion to repudiate Bush's anti-liberty policies, and is in some cases actively supporting them, but I'm absolutely certain that McCain would've been much, much worse.