&gt; <i>All this is pretty grim coming from a professor of constitutional law. It makes me wonder what he really believes&#x2F;believed when he entered office.</i><p>I recall reading an article describing Obama&#x27;s inheritance of Bush II&#x27;s questionable programs. The concern wasn&#x27;t so much that maybe torturing people (etc) were bad ideas, but how to reform the programs so that they were legitimate under the constitution.<p>He essentially operates as a constitutional law black hat, searching for bugs which can be exploited to justify the tyrannical status quo.