we are going to start today with tina chomsky the director of the national security project of the aclu which tries to ensure national security practices and policies are consistent with the times the constitution civil liberties and human rights. she frequently mitigates cases regarding freedom of speech and association challenging targeted killing and torture and post-9/11 discrimination against religious and racial minorities. she's a graduate of northwestern university school of law. >> she teaches at columbia law school. tina why do you kick us off. we have seen through the obama air at arise of the anti-obama last that critiques him for continuing and entrenching the war on terrorist bases it. what do you see as the power that the obama administration has claimed regarding armed conflict zones and with the policy consequences of his decision to do those things. c thank you charlie and good morning everyone. i want to begin by analogy in the last couple of days has sometimes been depressing in terms of conversations about a progressive vision of the constitution but more often real