Obama signs defense bill despite ‘reservations’
December 31, 2011 at 8:28 am in Grand Forks Herald
President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law today despite having “serious reservations” about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists. In a statement accompanying his signature, the president chastised some lawmakers for what he contended was their attempts to use the bill to restrict the ability of counterterrorism officials to protect the country. Continue Reading
Why does “fighting terrorism” always make a mockery of the Bill of Rights?
The law is clearly un-constitutional; at least until the SCOTUS defiles the plain-text meaning of the Constitution (again!) in support of tyranny .
The “terrorists” have won. Our own government is now more of a threat to liberty than any outsiders ever were since 1776.
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