Last October, former Bush NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden gushed with praise for Obama: "there's been a powerful continuity between the 43rd and the 44th president."

James Jay Carafano, a homeland-security expert at the Heritage Foundation, told The New York Times' Peter Baker last January: "I don’t think it's even fair to call it Bush Lite. It's Bush. It's really, really hard to find a difference that's meaningful and not atmospheric."

In an interview last night with NBC News, Cheney praised Obama for continuing his and Bush's core approach to Terrorism.

Glenn Greenwald has had some moments of considerable clarity lately.