- Obama built his political identity on revulsion at the excesses of the Bush years. Yet, from warrantless wiretapping and torture to dodgy intelligence in Iraq, he knew of those excesses because of unauthorized disclosures to the press. Without leaks, Barack Obama might never have been elected http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/06/was-cheney-right-about-obama.html 8 comments politics
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