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    Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency

    Written by Charlie Savage

    Narrated by Dan Woren

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    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state

    Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's "global war on terror" but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention to military commissions and targeted killings. Then Obama found himself bequeathing those authorities to Donald Trump. How did the United States get here?

    In Power Wars, Charlie Savage reveals high-level national security legal and policy deliberations in a way no one has done before. He tells inside stories of how Obama came to order the drone killing of an American citizen, preside over an unprecendented crackdown on leaks, and keep a then-secret program that logged every American's phone calls. Encompassing the first comprehensive history of NSA surveillance over the past forty years as well as new information about the Osama bin Laden raid, Power Wars equips readers to understand the legacy of Bush's and Obama's post-9/11 presidencies in the Trump era.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateNov 3, 2015
    ISBN9781478960973
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      How the Obama administration took the national security surveillance, detention, and covert action apparatus it inherited from the George W. Bush administration and ended up keeping most of it. Guantanamo wasn’t closed because they didn’t act fast enough, and then Congress blocked the closing despite the harm to our reputation and national honor. But for the rest, Savage argues—surveillance and drone killings mostly—what the Obama policymakers had objected to in the Bush administration was the lack of legal authorization for these acts, the violations of existing laws or actions outside statutorily granted authority. Whether you think this is ironic or not, the Obama administration’s focus on lawfulness rather than human rights meant that they ended up institutionalizing many of the biggest expansions of the national security state by seeking formal methods and procedures for overseeing, but not blocking, these exercises of executive power.