Not a good start

The ACLU has just issued a report summarizing the Obama administration's actions on a number of issues affecting civil rights - TRANSPARENCY, TORTURE AND ACCOUNTABILITY, DETENTION, TARGETED KILLING, MILITARY COMMISSIONS, SPEECH AND SURVEILLANCE, WATCH LISTS. The administration does not receive high marks for its handling of these issues. In act, the ACLU worries that by following many of the Bush practices in these areas "there is a very real danger that the Obama administration will enshrine permanently within the law policies and practices that were widely considered extreme and unlawful during the Bush administration. There is a real danger, in other words, that the Obama administration will preside over the creation of a new normal.”