THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, WE’D HAVE A PRESIDENCY THE BRITS WOULD MOCK. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Nile Gardiner: A nasty, brutish, imperial presidency.

The threats being dished out to Woodward, Davis and others are extremely disturbing in a free society, and are a reflection of an imperial presidency that acts with impunity and is highly intolerant of dissent. The heavy-arm tactics that Obama’s team have deployed for years against conservatives are now being increasingly implemented as well against liberals questioning the president’s record.

Leading US political analyst Michael Barone predicted all this in a piece for National Review Online back in October 2008, when he wrote about “The Coming Obama Thugocracy.” It is an article that is strikingly accurate in its predictions.

The signs were there, for those who could see.