Obama Issues Signing Statement Objecting To Guantanamo Limits

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Obama Objects To Gitmo Limits, But Doesn't Claim Right To Defy Them

President Obama on Friday afternoon signed a major military spending bill, even as he bitterly objected to provisions within it intended to limit his ability to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.

In a signing statement, Obama said Congress's ban on bringing Guantanamo detainees to the mainland in order to face domestic trials "represents a dangerous and unprecedented challenge to critical executive branch authority to determine when and where to prosecute Guantanamo detainees, based on the facts and the circumstances of each case and our national security interests."

And he said the move "undermines our Nation's counterterrorism efforts and has the potential to harm our national security."

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1. Which Bush would have done

We need to never again have a Republican President, as we know well they will revert to Bush's abuse of the signing statement.

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2. Good point nt