Michael Boyle

Michael Boyle (academic, “terror expert”)
Alma mater	Cambridge University, Harvard University, La Salle University
Interests	Barak Obama
Obama campaign advisor who later said the president had "gone over to the dark side".

Michael Boyle was a "counterterrorism" advisor to the Obama campaign in 2007-2008.

Career

He has held fellowships at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. He was also a Fulbright fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra. He has been a consultant for the U.S. and UK governments.

Boyle is an assistant professor of political science at La Salle University and a Senior Fellow with theForeign Policy Research Institute.

Opinions

President Obama "has gone over to the dark side by introducing a number of dangerous policy innovations and bureaucratic precedents that will shape the foundation of America's future counterterrorism policies. He has presided over a vast increase in domestic and foreign surveillance through the NSA, launched a witch-hunt against government whistleblowers and created a secret drones program to kill terrorist suspects worldwide without public acknowledgement or due process. Under his watch, the US has expanded the field of battle in the 'war on terrorism' to a dozen countries and constructed institutions and routines of surveillance and assassination – such as the so-called 'disposition matrix' and 'Terror Tuesdays' that will have serious consequences beyond his presidency."

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