On the Obama administration's counterterrorism policy

[randy_byers]

David Cole has a very interesting defense & critique of the Obama administration's record on national security, civil liberties, and counterterrorism. It's well worth reading the whole thing. He praises the administration for breaking with Dubya's worst flaunting of legal constraints on executive power while criticizing them on various issues of transparency and accountability (e.g., failure to prosecute torturers).

(Via Adam Serwer, who notes, while disagreeing with some of Cole's argument, that Cole is "a lawyer who represented torture victim Mahar Arar and fought the administration in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project".)