Copyrighted Image? DMCA | White House officials are drafting a statement for President Barack Obama to issue when he signs the latest military spending bill, rejecting provisions attached to the legislation that drastically limit the executive branch's ability to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay. The more alarming option would be for him to instead follow the George W. Bush-era practice of unilaterally asserting his right to ignore a statute, with only the vaguest of explanations and without an avenue for appeal. But that would clearly violate Obama's own March 2009 declaration that he would restore signing statements to their historical, uncontroversial role. |
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