Long before President Obama kicked off his 2008 campaign, many Americans took it for granted that George W. Bush’s vast, sprawling national security apparatus needed to be reined in. For Democrats, many independents, and constitutional experts of various persuasions, Vice President Dick Cheney’s notorious doctrine of the unitary executive (which holds that the President controls the entire executive branch), was the ultimate statement of the imperial presidency. alternet.org/economy/surveillance-state-and-democrats
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