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Obama May Bypass Guantánamo Rules, Aides Say
NYT ^ | 1/31/11 | Charlie Savage

Posted on 01/03/2011 8:48:39 PM PST by Nachum

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s legal advisers, confronting the prospect of new restrictions on the transfer of Guantánamo detainees, are debating whether to recommend that he issue a signing statement asserting that his executive powers would allow him to bypass the restrictions, according to several officials. If Mr. Obama were to issue such a statement, it could represent a more aggressive use of unilateral executive powers than what he exerted in his first two years in office. Mr. Obama could act on the measure by the end of the week. The issue has arisen as the Republican Party takes control

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bypass; guantnamo; obama; rules
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Rules are for suckers
1 posted on 01/03/2011 8:48:48 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


2 posted on 01/03/2011 8:49:45 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum
Why doesn't he just issue an EO that says that he doesn't have to follow any rules but his own?

Hell, think of the money we could save if we disbanded the Senate and the House?/SAR

3 posted on 01/03/2011 8:52:45 PM PST by calex59
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To: Nachum

What “rules”?


4 posted on 01/03/2011 8:56:16 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Nachum

Veto it, Big Ears, or else obey. America expects nothing less from a president.


5 posted on 01/03/2011 9:01:32 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Nachum

Sounds like maybe Chavez gave Hitlery his playbook when the met this week, and now 0bama’s got a new toy to play with.


6 posted on 01/03/2011 9:03:39 PM PST by R0CK3T
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To: Nachum

Africa is infested with such dictators


7 posted on 01/03/2011 9:05:56 PM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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To: Nachum

Zer0 & H0lder are leftist Wusses.


8 posted on 01/03/2011 9:33:29 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Nachum

Congress passed lawa about this issue can he do that? They still hve the power of the purse.


9 posted on 01/03/2011 9:35:14 PM PST by chris_bdba
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To: Nachum

Nail his tanned hide to the shed, Fred.


10 posted on 01/03/2011 9:35:30 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Nachum
In 2006, the American Bar Association declared that presidents should veto legislation they view as flawed rather than issue signing statements, which the group portrayed as “contrary to the rule of law and our constitutional separation of powers.” One member of the Obama legal team, Harold Koh, the State Department legal adviser, was a member of a task force that developed that declaration.

Slimy hypocrites.

11 posted on 01/03/2011 9:40:30 PM PST by denydenydeny (Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
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To: dennisw; All; Spunky; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1035rep; 2ndDivisionVet; 4woodenboats; 5Madman2; ...

In case you missed this and even if not, the Canadian article is worth a second read.

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/01/do-you-fear-obama-you-should.html


12 posted on 01/03/2011 9:53:34 PM PST by FARS (Be Healthy, Happy and Thrive)
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To: FARS

Thank you.


13 posted on 01/03/2011 9:58:17 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: FARS

Thanks for the ping!


14 posted on 01/03/2011 10:04:30 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: FARS

Hey FARS, Dinner Jacket is having problems at home in today’s debkafile...


15 posted on 01/04/2011 4:38:59 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
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To: Nachum

Let’s cut funding for Air Force One, halfway through one of his overseas trips.


16 posted on 01/04/2011 5:14:15 AM PST by Dilbert56 (Harry Reid, D-Nev.: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.")
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To: Nachum

Here he goes. He is Hugo Chavez twin marxist.


17 posted on 01/04/2011 5:16:30 AM PST by dforest
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Obama doesn’t have to abide by rules. Gimme a break. He is the first black President, dammit.


18 posted on 01/04/2011 6:16:25 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Uh...that was BJ, by acclamation.


19 posted on 01/04/2011 6:49:30 AM PST by onedoug
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To: indylindy
"Here he goes. He is Hugo Chavez twin marxist."
20 posted on 01/04/2011 7:47:37 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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