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President Obama believes in secret government unaccountable to Congress, the courts or the American people. If he announced he was suspending the Constitution and ruling by decree to defeat international terrorism, it wouldn’t be fanciful to predict that Congress and the American people would simply acquiesce like vassals. As the historian Tacitus observed, when Republics yield to tyranny, “the worst crimes are dared by a few, willed by more, and tolerated by all.”