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Unsolicited Advice for Obama By Radley Balko

November 18, 2008 - 8:19am

Since the election, the newspapers and Internet have been flooded with unsolicited advice for President-elect Barack Obama. I'll go ahead and add mine.

I don't agree with Obama on much (I don't agree with the current administration on much, either), so I won't make an appeal with him to compromise with the Republicans on the issues where I agree with them. Instead, here are a few recommendations — some substantive, some symbolic — of moves Obama could make that are consistent with the principles he articulated during the campaign:

REYES STATEMENT ON ALLEGATIONS OF NSA DOMESTIC SPYING

October 22, 2008 - 4:18pm

REYES STATEMENT ON ALLEGATIONS OF NSA DOMESTIC SPYING
 
WASHINGTON, DC (October 15) – House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman, Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), today released the following statement after a staff-level briefing by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of the Army regarding the troubling new allegations of eavesdropping on American personnel overseas.
 

Posse Comitatus Act - FOIA Request

October 21, 2008 - 12:35pm

The American Civil Liberties Union demanded information from the government about reports that an active military unit has been deployed inside the U.S. to help with "civil unrest" and "crowd control" – matters traditionally handled by civilian authorities. This deployment jeopardizes the longstanding separation between civilian and military government, and the public has a right to know where and why the unit has been deployed.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/37272lgl20081021.html