Obama worse than Bush?

[Spock]

“We are witnessing the bipartisan normalization and legitimization of a national-surveillance state,” Jack Balkin, a liberal law professor at Yale says. In his view, zealous leak prosecutions are consonant with other political shifts since 9/11: the emergence of a vast new security bureaucracy, in which at least two and a half million people hold confidential, secret, or top-secret clearances; huge expenditures on electronic monitoring, along with a reinterpretation of the law in order to sanction it; and corporate partnerships with the government that have transformed the counterterrorism industry into a powerful lobbying force.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/...fact_mayer

Whistleblower charged with spying for disclosing financial waste, bureaucratic dysfunction, and dubious legal practices in N.S.A. counterterrorism programs.

Don't you feel safer now ..... didn't think so.

[rjmacs]

This is a serious problem; thanks for the link.

Regarding your subject line question: point me to a President in living memory who has taken action to reduce executive power, and i will send you a cookie. The expansion of the security apparatus is a power win for the executive branch. Obama is doing it. Bush did it. Clinton did it. The explicit modern agenda to expand presidential power goes back to Nixon.