Obama just 'Vetoed' Indefinite Military Detention in NDAA

[There Is No Spoon]

by dotcommodity

On the 29th of February, 2012, President Obama used a waiver to extract the nation out of the nastier part of last December's controversial National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bill: the enshrining of Bush era policy of indefinite military detention for terrorism suspects in law.

OK. This was not legally a "veto" - presidents do not have the line item veto that this would have taken. It was a policy directive as required under Section 1022.

But legal experts agree that the waiver rules that President Obama has just issued will effectively end military detentions for non-citizen terrorism suspects:

Quote: "Yesterday evening, the Obama Administration issued a policy directive that effectively negates much of the NDAA’s section 1022, the section that purports to require that non-citizens suspected of strong links to terrorism be held in military, rather than civilian, custody.

Using a national security rationale, the directive reverses the presumption of military detention that section 1022 had established." says Joanne Mariner, director of Hunter College’s Human Rights Program at her blog Verdict.

What Obama has done is to return terrorism cases to civil courts as the default - reversing the Cheney era practice of indefinite military detentions.


... http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/03...ia=siderec


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I am relatively certain that, even though this was the ONLY way to get around what Congress dumped on his lap, the professional whiners on both the left and right will act like they are brainless ignoramuses when the logic of this decision is presented to them.

[jaxx]

Glad you brought this up because it's being ignored. President Obama is not going to go for unlimited military detainment.
I'm sure some jerk in the Congress will take this to court, but they overextended themselves on this one and he stopped it.

[azmouse]

Amazing how much Obama is just like Bush.... NOT!

[pappy]

(03-04-2012 11:19 AM)azmouse Wrote:  Amazing how much Obama is just like Bush.... NOT!

Well everyone knows that Democrats and Publicans are the same.