ACLU Report Card on Obama and GOP Candidates: Not Good

From the SF Chronicle:

The American Civil Liberties Union has issued “Liberty Watch 2012,” its report card for presidential candidates on issues like surveillance, torture, gay rights and immigration. No one gets an A, including President Obama.

Obama, the only Democrat among the 10 candidates rated, got a perfect score – four “torches” – on only one issue, allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, for his backing of the December 2010 law that repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

But he received lower marks on immigration, abortion rights and “closing Guantanamo Bay and indefinite detention,” where his one-torch rating was attributed to backtracking on a promise to shut the prison for suspected terrorists and his support for holding their trials in military commissions. Read more…

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