Posted on 08/21/2014 12:42:07 PM PDT by maddog55
President Obama violated a “clear and unambiguous” law when he released five Guantanamo Bay detainees in exchange for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the Government Accountability Office reported Thursday.
“[The Department of Defense] violated section 8111 because it did not notify the relevant congressional committees at least 30 days in advance of the transfer,” the GAO report said. “In addition, because DOD used appropriated funds to carry out the transfer when no money was available for that purpose, DOD violated the Antideficiency Act. The Antideficiency Act prohibits federal agencies from incurring obligations exceeding an amount available in an appropriation.”
The GAO rejected the idea that the action was legal and sidestepped the Obama team’s suggestion that the law is unconstitutional.
“It is not our role or our practice to determine the constitutionality of duly enacted statutes,” the report says. “In our view, where legislation has been passed by Congress and signed by the President, thereby satisfying the bicameralism and presentment requirements in the Constitution, that legislation is entitled to a heavy presumption in favor of constitutionality.”
if Perry gets arrested for changing budgetary items to force out an embarrassing DA...
then 0bama should get at least the same for aiding and abetting enemy combatants
As if that’ll make any diff.
Cue an appropriate CNN/MSNBC/NPR minion to find some so-called “loophole”.
Perry gets indicted for something that’s totally legal, and this clown in chief gets a perpetual pass on everything.
What gave ‘em a clue?
Fine, now will the feckless and cowardly CON-gress do anything about it?
Just kidding, I know they won’t. Repub’s will bloviate, dims will bloviate right back, time moves on...
Obama is Law-Less because Republican “leaders” are BALL-LESS!!!
The PONTIFICATION continues and Kabuki theater in WASH D.C. rolls on.
Yep and what is Congress going to do about it? Same as they did when he made the illegal changes in the ACA? Same thing they did about the illegal IRS actions? Same thing they did about his illegal changes in immigration laws? And on and on and on.
In other words, not a damn thing except talk it to death. Because, let’s face it folks, there ain’t a dimes worth of difference between any of them.
So whats the punishment? NOTHING!
We are way past the time to save ourselves. Enjoy your final days.
Just another law broken, and not one elected has done anything about it. A general is “interviewing bergdahl” and the report will be ready for “reading” sometime next month.
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