ACLU slams Obama’s security policies

The ACLU on Thursday excoriated President Obama for continuing the Bush administration’s strictest national security policies, including indefinite detention, military commissions and a “targeted kill” program that authorizes the government to take out suspected terrorists anywhere.

The American Civil Liberties Union warned Mr. Obama, in a report based on a review of his 18 months in office, that his administration was on course to institutionalize the policies of his predecessor. The ACLU was a fierce critic of President George W. Bush’s war on terror.

Failing to overturn those and other contentious tactics risks the creation of a “new normal,” the ACLU argued in the report, which looked at administration policies it says implicate human rights and civil liberties.

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