? He voted for the Patriot Act and all of its revisions.
 
? McCain wants intelligence officials to have all tools they
need to fight terrorism.
 
? He opposes detaining enemy combatants without giving them
legal rights. 

? He generally opposes the interests of the American Civil
Liberties Union.
		

• He voted against the original Patriot Act of 2001 and
later for bills reauthorizing the act as a compromise,
believing the new version is still better than what the White
House originally proposed and does modestly improve the
Patriot Act by strengthening civil liberty protection without
sacrificing the tools that law enforcement needs to keep us
safe.

?• Obama wants Homeland Security money targeted more
towards high-risk areas such as nuclear facilities, chemical
plants and ports.
 
?• He introduced legislation to enhance disaster
preparedness and to strengthen the security of chemical plants
and drinking water security.

• He wants more quality tracking of nuclear technology
and spent nuclear fuel so that it doesn't end up in terrorist
hands.

• When asked to describe the Obama doctrine for the use
of force when there was no security issue in the offing, he
replied, "Well, we may not always have national security
issues at stake, but we have moral issues at stake."
	
• When asked, during his presidential interview with
Katie Couric of CBS News, to explain a national security
situation when it was appropriate to lie to the American
people, Obama was of the opinion, "I don't think it's
appropriate to lie. I mean, you can put together a
hypothetical where there is a national security emergency that
is imminent. And you don?t want to provide, for example, the
location of our troops. You don?t have to lie in those
situations. You simply say, ?We?re not answering questions." 
	
• Barack Obama thinks that the problems of terrorism are
one of the most terrible threats that the US faces. 
	
• "The way we have to approach the problem of Islamic
extremism, is we have to hunt down those who would resort to
violence to move their ideology forward. We should be going
after al Qaeda and those networks fiercely and effectively,"
stated Obama on CNN Late Edition July 13th 2008.
	
• Human rights and national security are complementary,
stated Obama when he was questioned about whether human rights
were more important than American national security. 

• Laura Flanders on 11th November 2007 quoted Obama
saying, "The threat that we face now is nowhere near as dire
as it was in the Cold War. We shouldn?t allow our politics to
be driven by the fear of terrorism."