The NDAA Will Have a Signing Statement

Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:12 pm by Bob Cesca

There’s no indication of content, but it might clarify how the administration interprets the law.

Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed speculation Wednesday that President Barack Obama would issue a signing statement when he makes the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its controversial detention provisions law.

“We made really substantial progress in moving from something that was really unacceptable to the administration to something with which we still have problems,” Holder said in response to a question from the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Perez. “But I think through these procedures, with these regulations we will be crafting, we can minimize the problems that will actually affect us in an operational way.”

I doubt it will contain the magic words (“the war on terror is over”) but it could help to ameliorate some fears about civil liberties.

(Via Ashby. I’m moving at the end of the week, so that’s why I’ve been away from the tubes today.)

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  • http://phydeauxpseaks.blogspot.com Bob Rutledge

    He’s gonna announce the forced relocation of all undesirable elements. But I’m sure the GOPpers will be happy in North Dakota.

  • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

    Thanks for keeping up with this, Bob. I’m not surprised that a signing statement will be included……..I would have been more surprised if it hadn’t been.

  • mrbrink

    Sami Samir Hassoun dropped what he thought was a backpack filled with explosives into a garbage can outside Wrigley Field last year.

    The Ricketts would probably cry tears of joy.

    But the FBI keeps coming up with these guys

    It’s a much more difficult situation than the president is given credit for.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YM23FX2FBZEC3UVDPZRGCUBIZ4 staci

      Blow up Wrigley – I’ll chase him down myself. :-)

  • muselet

    Three moves equal one fire. –Chinese proverb

    –alopecia

  • TalkieToaster2

    Are signing statements suddenly okay now? I mean, they were awful when Shrub was President.

    • i_a_c

      They were awful when Bush was president because he used it like a line-item veto. And he did this hundreds of times.

      Obama thus far has used fewer than two dozen signing statements. He has used them predominantly to ignore obviously unconstitutional GOP bullcrap like defunding his “czars.”

  • mrbrink

    Thank you, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush.

    Your Carlyle Groups and Halliburtons. Your Oliver Norths and Donald Rumsfelds. Your proxy wars, your Abu Ghraibs and Guantanamo Bay.

    Your 9/11 and your Shock & Awe.

    Your arms dealing and money laundering and torture.

    The Republican party’s foreign policy since Ronald Reagan has polluted the global landscape with toxic war waste and indiscriminate blood. Instability, fear, and distrust are our Republican party foreign policy heirlooms.

    The gift that keeps on killing.

    • Brutlyhonest

      It’s not all bad: Some people have become very, very wealthy off it.