Jane Mayer
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“Pundits, opponents, and disillusioned supporters would blame Obama for squandering the promise of his administration. Certainly he and his administration made their share of mistakes. But it is hard to think of another president who had to face the kind of guerrilla warfare waged against him almost as soon as he took office. A small number of people with massive resources orchestrated, manipulated, and exploited the economic unrest for their own purposes. They used tax-deductible donations to fund a movement to slash taxes on the rich and cut regulations on their own businesses. While they paid focus groups and seasoned operatives to frame these self-serving policies as matters of dire public interest, they hid their roles behind laws meant to protect the anonymity of philanthropists, leaving more folksy figures like Santelli to carry the message.”
― Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
― Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
“Few would argue against safe-guarding the nation. But in the judgment of at least one of the country's most distinguished presidential scholars, the legal steps taken by the Bush Administration in its war against terrorism were a quantum leap beyond earlier blots on the country's history and traditions: more significant than John Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts, than Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War, than the imprisonment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. Collectively, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. argued, the Bush Administration's extralegal counter-terrorism program presented the most dramatic, sustained, and radical challenge to the rule of law in American history.”
― The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
― The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
“Total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. —Isaiah Berlin”
― Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
― Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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