Any citizen at any time for any reason? Or is Whitehead overstating the case here?
In today’s government, you have to ask?
I was asking about Bush's government, not O's, since that was the context of the original remark. Did the Bush admin exercise police state powers indiscriminately, or were his rules narrowly focused on citizens actually suspected of collusion with terrorists?
Of course, no matter how judiciously Bush exercised said powers, it opened up a Pandora's Box of precedents for the current regime.