Meet the New Boss...Same as the Old Boss, part 2

The San Francisco Chronicle reports on a filmmaker who has been placed in that Kafkaesque world of the watch lists for flyers:

Nearly every time Poitras travels abroad - which is often - she's stopped on her departure or return by U.S. airport security, who subject her to tough questioning and have forced her to miss flights.

Of course, the most egregious aspect of this egregious assault on her civil liberties is that the US government won't actually admit that she is on any sort of list at all, which is par for the course.

We can take great satisfaction in Obama undid all the onerous assaults on human rights that the Bush regime instituted in the name of the war on terror. Oh wait...Never mind.

Not that this is surprising. Obama gave a clear clue before the election of his views on such matters as civil liberties and execute power when he voted for the FISA bill. But I am curious as to why so many liberals who were rightly outraged at Bush's egregious policies in the "war on terror" are willing to give Obama a pass when he continues those same policies.