By Sam Smith
By the standards of the US Constitution as well as American and international law, Barack Obama is a criminal – as are many of his recent predecessors.
The fact that most Americans don’t see him as such reflects the degree to which we have come to accept the ad hoc policies of those in power as superior to established principles reached by democratic decision over more than two hundred years.
Here are some of the crimes which our recent presidents have committed
– They have repeatedly gone to war without the formal approval of Congress.