Intertwined with the struggle against terrorism was the struggle for America's soul. The essence of this struggle was about the answer to one simple question, Would we wake up one day to find ourselves living in a nation where you could be “disappeared” for having the wrong friends, visiting the wrong Internet sites, and reading the wrong things?
The New York Times reviewer wrote about that ideological struggle, “It's a cage match between the Constitution and a cabal of Ideological extremists, and the Constitution goes down.” Will it ever get back up? The prospects seem grim, at least to Jack Goldsmith, former head of the Office of Legal Counsel; he writes in an article for The New Republic,
“The new administration has copied most of the Bush program, has expanded some of it, and has narrowed only a bit. Almost all of the Obama changes have been at the level of packaging, argumentation, symbol, and rhetoric.”
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