The reason to stay off of slippery slopes is that once you start sliding down them, it is very hard to return to the top of the slope. The new guidelines from the FBI are a perfect example of how civil liberties erode.

Obama’s top Terrorism adviser John Brennan recently suggested that there could be “dozens” of Americans who have been targeted for assassination, and  Glenn Greenwald appeared on the Dylan Ratigan show today to discuss the implications. Ratigan asked Glenn Greenwald if Obama’s actions create “a massive cognitive dissonance that actually allows him to get away with [...]