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Obama White House Threatens a Veto Over Worldwide War and Detention Provisions
by Chris Anders, Washington Legislative Office at 9:03pm May 24th, 2011
Wow! Late this afternoon, the Obama White House threatened to VETO the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bill that the House of Representatives is debating and voting on this week, if it includes a new law for worldwide war without end, or any of the bad Guantánamo detention and limitation of prosecution provisions that Chairman Buck McKeon of the House Armed Services Committee slipped into the bill.
The statement is the strongest and most principled stand the White House has taken on these kinds of provisions. The Obama administration is saying no to the proposed worldwide war law. A veto threat is a very big deal. The president is making clear where he stands, and is backing it up with his veto pen, if Congress doesn’t fix the bill.
Here’s what the White House told Congress:
On the NDAA’s troubling transfer restriction language, the administration said:
President Obama and his administration have to be commended for taking such a tough stance on issues of fundamental importance to the rule of law and our democracy. The new White House statement should make us all work even harder to convince Congress to take out these dangerous provisions.
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