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History Will Judge Obama On NDAA
On the last day of 2011, a Saturday when few were paying attention to national affairs, President Obama signed H.R. 1540, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, into law. The president appended a signing statement saying he approved the new law "despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists," and insisted that "my Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens."But it is hard to take Obama at his word. In November, the White House threatened to veto the bill, but Obama did not. And he has made other shifts on national security issues before.
Hey guys, even your beloved ACLU has spoken up..
President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Into Law
We are extremely disappointed that President Obama signed this bill even though his administration is already claiming overly-broad detention authority in court. Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back those claims dimmed today.Thankfully we have three branches of government, and the final word on the scope of detention authority belongs to the Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on the scope of detention authority. But Congress and the president also have a role to play in cleaning up the mess they have created because no American citizen or anyone else should live in fear of this or any future president misusing the NDAA’s detention authority.