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Subject: obama signs NDAA
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jlh1182 4.01.13 - 12:23am
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blackberry/p.html?id=2402601 * +
jlh1182 4.01.13 - 12:24am
President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 on Wednesday, despite his own threat to veto it over prohibitions on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. * +
jlh1182 4.01.13 - 12:25am
Civil liberties advocates had roundly criticized the bill over Guantanamo and a separate section that could allow the military to indefinitely detain American citizens on suspicions of supporting terrorism. * +
jlh1182 4.01.13 - 12:26am
Just as he did with last year's version of the bill, however, Obama decided that the need to pass the NDAA, which also sets the armed forces' 633 billion budget for the 2013 fiscal year, was simply too great to ignore, according to a presidential signing statement released in the early morning hours Thursday. * +
jlh1182 4.01.13 - 12:28am
'President Obama has utterly failed the first test of his second term, even before inauguration day,' American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero said in a statement. 'His signature means indefinite detention without charge or trial, as well as the illegal military commissions, will be extended.' * +
jlh1182 4.01.13 - 12:30am
'It's the second time that the president has promised to veto a piece of a very controversial national security legislation only to sign it,' said Shahid Buttar, executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. 'He has a habit of promising resistance to national security initiatives that he ultimately ends up supporting and enabling.' * +
phallica 4.01.13 - 12:32am
633 billion, hot d*mn. The amount of good that could have done, down the fear dunny. * +
jlh1182 4.01.13 - 12:33am
well so much for all that talk about this getting shot down or changed like certain ppl were so sure would happen.. * +
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