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As Glenn Beck pointed out....


Beck's not the only one who's made this argument. In fact, it does small harm to the argument to cite Beck for it.

People on both sides of the aisle, including some liberals and civil libertarians, are very uncomfortable with Obama's decision to scale back civil liberties by blurring the line between terrorist and criminal.

Historically, the government has provided criminal court constitutional rights to U.S. citizens and denied them the "enemy combatants" or "prisoners of war." Bush was criticized for continuing that trend.

Now, Obama is actually going farther than Bush did. He's actually pondering creating a situation where U.S. citizens (not enemy combatants) can lose their rights simply by being charged as a "terrorist." .