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Agorism
01-08-2011, 12:42 AM
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/01/07/obama-signs-law-blocking-gitmo-closure/


Though he initially halted military tribunals and promised to move forward with such prosecutions, he has since restarted the tribunals and openly insists a number of the detainees will be held forever and never charged with anything at all. The White House insists it “regrets” that move too, but is also doing it anyhow.

Though the administration has repeatedly insisted that they are “determined’ to closing the detention center, the president has made absolutely no serious efforts to do so in over a year, and has repeatedly signed executive orders and bills which would make the eventual closure even more difficult. It seems difficult then to take his “objections” as anything more than a political bone thrown to supporters who voted for him in the hopes that he would follow through with his pledge to close the facility.

Anti Federalist
01-08-2011, 12:43 AM
Humph...shocked, shocked I am...

Aratus
01-08-2011, 10:53 AM
edwin stanton, jeff davis and barack obama are not
siding with the barons around kynge john in 1215...?
when begining with pentagon budget cutting i have my
druthers, and guess where i would cut first, totally!!!

HOLLYWOOD
01-08-2011, 11:26 AM
George Carlin: "...they want obedient citizens, obedient workers, just smart enough to do the paperwork and push the buttons and dumb enough to accept..."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQXZoM__vU0

torchbearer
01-08-2011, 11:48 AM
and just to give you a heads up, the dem shills are talking about ways of "Branding" Obama the outsider in his re-election bid.
and yes, people will forget the last few years and pretend he is mr. hope and change.

Zippyjuan
01-08-2011, 01:34 PM
The section was added on to a crucial military spending bill. Obama said he did not want to veto the spending bill just to stop the provision but would fight to get the provision repealed. He definately did not support it. Not surprising that Antiwar only covers one angle of the story.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/08/2006020/obama-signs-law-on-detainee-transfers.html


WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Friday reluctantly signed into law a military-funding bill that limits him from transferring terrorism detainees from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to the U.S. or foreign countries, but he signaled that he may get past the restrictions by using non-Pentagon resources to get the job done.





In a harshly worded signing statement to Congress accompanying the National Defense Authorization Act, Obama said that the law's limits on detainee transfers represent ``a dangerous and unprecedented challenge to critical executive branch authority'' and that any attempt to block the use of federal courts to try terrorists ``undermines our nation's counterterrorism efforts and has the potential to harm our national security.''

He similarly criticized a provision that would add new hurdles to using defense funds to transfer detainees to the custody of foreign countries. He said such certification requirements ``would hinder the conduct of delicate negotiations with foreign countries and therefore the effort to conclude detainee transfers in accord with our national security.''

Obama said his team will ``seek repeal of these restrictions, will seek to mitigate their effects, and will oppose any attempt to extend or expand them in the future.''

Obama had little choice but to sign H.R. 6523 because it releases money needed to keep the military funded as it winds down two wars.

Congress' legislation is just the latest to confound the Obama administration's ambition to empty the prison camp at Guantánamo, initially by Jan. 22, 2010.



Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/08/2006020/obama-signs-law-on-detainee-transfers.html#ixzz1ATSCMjhZ

Agorism
01-08-2011, 01:39 PM
If it's a military bill then that would be something good to veto as well though.

devil21
01-08-2011, 04:57 PM
There's no such thing as a crucial military spending bill.