My concerns about this are whether it is appropriate for the President of the United States to do this, whether the President has the authority to do this, and whether these investigations are being performed for political reasons (and not legal reasons) ... There are already several organizations which are supposed to perform these types of investigations and have the means to perform them in a systematic, non-political, methodology which makes me believe the worst case for all of my concerns.
While I will never convince Obama supporters of the dangers of centralizing more and more power around the presidency while he is in power, I would suggest that they consider what the risk of actions like this is if an "Evil" Republican president was elected in 2012/2016 and decided to use these new-found powers to investigate companies because they decided to heavily support their opposition.
