{"id":786,"date":"2014-10-28T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=786"},"modified":"2014-10-28T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T15:43:13","slug":"vote-all-you-want-the-secret-government-wont-change-ideas-the-boston-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Vote all you want. The secret government won\u2019t change. &#8211; Ideas &#8211; The Boston Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/ideas\/2014\/10\/18\/vote-all-you-want-the-secret-government-won-change\/jVSkXrENQlu8vNcBfMn9sL\/story.html?p1\">Vote all you want. The secret government won\u2019t change. &#8211; Ideas &#8211; The Boston Globe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"U742790428640xCE\" style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">T<span id=\"U742790428640wNG\" class=\"span\" style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-transform: uppercase; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">HE VOTERS WHO\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"U74279042864066D\" class=\"span\" style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">put Barack Obama in office expected some big changes. From the NSA\u2019s warrantless wiretapping to Guantanamo Bay to the Patriot Act, candidate Obama was a defender of civil liberties and privacy, promising a dramatically different approach from his predecessor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"U742790428640fzH\" style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">But six years into his administration, the Obama version of national security looks almost indistinguishable from the one he inherited. Guantanamo Bay remains open. The NSA has, if anything, become more aggressive in monitoring Americans. Drone strikes have escalated. Most recently it was reported that the same president who won a Nobel Prize in part for promoting nuclear disarmament is spending up to $1 trillion modernizing and revitalizing America\u2019s nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;\">Why did the face in the Oval Office change but the policies remain the same? Critics tend to focus on Obama himself, a leader who perhaps has shifted with politics to take a harder line. But Tufts University political scientist Michael J. Glennon has a more pessimistic answer: Obama couldn\u2019t have changed policies much even if he tried.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vote all you want. The secret government won\u2019t change. &#8211; Ideas &#8211; The Boston Globe. THE VOTERS WHO\u00a0put Barack Obama in office expected some big changes. From the NSA\u2019s warrantless wiretapping to Guantanamo Bay to the Patriot Act, candidate Obama was a defender of civil liberties and privacy, promising a dramatically different approach from his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[135,199,577,843],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-cia","tag-deep-state","tag-nsa","tag-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}