Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency
By Charlie Savage.
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security stateBarack 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 ...
ISBN(s)
0316286575, 9780316286572
