"Claiming “serious reservations” about the law he was enacting, Obama declared that “my Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of US citizens.” He allowed that such a practice would “break with our most important traditions and values as a nation.”
Obama’s pledge is as duplicitous as it is worthless. As one of the legislation’s key Democratic sponsors, Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, revealed, the Obama White House intervened directly into the legislative process to kill amendments that would have specifically prohibited the military from indefinitely imprisoning US citizens without trial. It viewed such an exemption as an unacceptable restriction on presidential power."
Of course they are griping. They would have gone apesh*t is Bush had done this. you would have heard them screaming across America. The Commies love it, but if the GOP wins in 2012 they are really going to go ballistic with this sitting there. Then they will start screaming FEMA camps... again.