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bijouxbroussard I'm most disappointed in his right wing (to me) moves like:
1. Following the 2013 disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the administration faced intense criticism for maintaining and defending the National Security Agency's (NSA) bulk collection of Americans' phone metadata and digital communications under Section 215 of the Patriot Act.
2. In 2011, the administration altered internal privacy rules, which led to a significant increase in NSA data searches involving U.S. citizens.
3. Just before leaving office in January 2017, the administration finalized rules under Executive Order 12333 allowing the NSA to share raw, unfiltered communication streams directly with other domestic agencies like the FBI and DEA.
4.The administration used the 1917 Espionage Act to prosecute leakers and whistleblowers more times than all previous presidential administrations combined.
5. In 2013, it was revealed that the Justice Department had secretly seized months of phone records from Associated Press journalists and named Fox News reporter James Rosen a "co-conspirator" in a leak investigation to obtain his personal emails.
6. The administration significantly expanded the use of unmanned drone strikes globally. A major flashpoint for constitutional scholars was the targeted killing of U.S. citizens abroad suspected of terrorism—such as Anwar al-Awlaki in 2011—without a trial or judicial due process. The administration asserted that executive branch deliberations satisfied the constitutional requirement for due process in active counterterrorism scenarios.
