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Cato Video • February 13, 2016 

# Power Wars: Inside Obama’s Post‑9/​11 Presidency (Charlie Savage) 

View the full event here: [https://​www​.cato​.org/​e​v​e​n​t​s​/​p​o​w​e​r​-​w​a​r​s​-​i​n​s​i​d​e​-​o​b​a​m​a​s​-​p​o​s​t​-​9​1​1​-​p​r​e​s​i​dency](https://www.cato.org/events/power-wars-inside-obamas-post-911-presidency)

As Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Charlie Savage documents in his new book Power Wars, from the early days of the Obama administration, “policy choices that departed from Bush-era programs dwindled, and those that continued— or even expanded— Bush-era programs rose.” Indeed, as president, Obama has launched more than seven times as many drone strikes as his predecessor, including the remote-control execution of an American citizen. He’s continued and expanded dragnet domestic surveillance programs based on a secret interpretation of the PATRIOT Act and launched two wars without authorization from Congress. Much has changed in the Obama era, but the imperial presidency endures and thrives.

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