Energy Wars: Inside Obama’s Publish-9/11 Presidency

Barack Obama campaigned on altering George W. Bush’s “international conflict on terror” however ended up entrenching extraordinary government powers, from warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention to army commissions and focused killings. Then Obama discovered himself bequeathing these authorities to Donald Trump. How did america get right here?

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Energy Wars, Charlie Savage reveals high-level nationwide safety authorized and coverage deliberations in a method nobody has completed earlier than. He tells inside tales of how Obama got here to order the drone killing of an American citizen, preside over an unprecendented crackdown on leaks, and hold a then-secret program that logged each American’s telephone calls. Encompassing the primary complete historical past of NSA surveillance over the previous forty years in addition to new details about the Osama bin Laden raid,
Energy Wars equips readers to grasp the legacy of Bush’s and Obama’s post-9/11 presidencies within the Trump period.