Many administrations have included high-level officials who have been strong advocates for civil liberties, even though this was not their explicit job description.
Through many, many administrations, it has been difficult to know who is advising — and in some cases actually running — our chief executive.
There are general counterarguments against this: many low-capacity administrations have rolled out wide-ranging systems of cash transfers using new technologies such as biometric identification, smartcards, and payments into mobile bank accounts [47, 55, 61].
Because of its many failures, the administration has made me suspect that it manipulates the terrorist threat to further its own self-preserving ends.
But what has been striking to many in the administration has been how strenuously the president has worked to include him and, perhaps most notably, the influence Mr. Biden appears to be wielding.
That would potentially preclude the special military tribunals President Bush has proposed, and open the way for many things the administration has hoped to avoid, like drawn-out appeals, publication of classified information and stricter standards of proof.
Since then - to the surprise of many - his administration has embarked on a reform process.
In too many cases, the administration has simply pushed these programs forward with little regard for privacy.
Although President Obama did not write those laws, he is now implementing them, and many believe his administration has not done enough to focus enforcement on the "worst of the worst".
Indeed, over recent decades, many college and university administrations have acted to shield students from outside law enforcement.
