Showing posts with label signing statements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label signing statements. Show all posts

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Let's call the whole thing... something else?

When the president signed the defense authorization bill, I actually took the trouble to go through the language on indefinite detention and such in the bill and in Obama's signing statement, and couldn't find anything to be truly paranoid about. And yet the emoprog terror continues (emoprog? I just discovered the word, in a Digby post, and couldn't wait to use it). Of course I'm below amateur in reading legislation, and Glenn Greenwald is an attorney's attorney, so he should obviously know better than I do, unless--well, unless his field of vision is somewhat limited by the assumption of the prosecutorial role?
Not meant to belittle the issues under discussion, but just to make everyone very, very happy. The entire scene, with snappy dialogue and glorious singing, is available but can't be embedded.

Anyhow, I heard something on the radio [jump]

Saturday, December 31, 2011

They sign, they make statements

This is a kind of scoop: The president has signed the defense bill, and issued a "signing statement"  (full text here) listing which parts he doesn't like. Some details below the fold:
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