THE BLACK-FACED CRACKER, O'BOMBER SIGNS THE DEATH WARRANT OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

[LibyaWest]

IN THE SAME FASHION THAT HE SIGNED THE RENEWAL OF THE PATRIOT ACT, THAT IS, WHILE HE AND HIS VACATIONED IN HIS BELOVED EUROPE, THE SLIMY PIECE S*** THAT AFRICAN-AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE COME TO LOVE AND ADORE, BARRAGE INSANE O'BOMBER, HAS NOW SOUNDED THE DEATH KNELL OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION WHILE HE AND HIS VACATION IN HAWAII.

 HISTORY WILL RECORD THAT THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN, ONCE A RIGHTEOUS-LOVING, JUSTICE-LOVING AND FREEEDOM-LOVING PEOPLE, VOLUNTARILY JUMPED INTO THE MORASS OF MORAL DECAY AND SANK BECAUSE THEY COULD NO LONGER DISTINGUISH BETWEEN WHAT IS FIT TO LOVE AND WHAT IS MORE APTLY  LOATHED.   IN SHORT, THEY LOST THE ABILITY TO TELL RIGHT FROM WRONG.  HOW LOW THEY'VE SUNK SINCE THE DAYS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.

 

Obama signs defense bill despite 'reservations'
bY JULIE PACE | AP


HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having "serious reservations" about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.

The bill also applies penalties against Iran's central bank in an effort to hamper Tehran's ability to fund its nuclear enrichment program. The Obama administration is looking to soften the impact of those penalties because of concerns that they could lead to a spike in global oil prices or cause economic hardship on U.S. allies that import petroleum from Iran.

In a statement accompanying his signature, the president chastised some lawmakers for what he contended was their attempts to use the bill to restrict the ability of counterterrorism officials to protect the country.

Administration officials said Obama was only signing the measure because Congress made minimally acceptable changes that no longer challenged the president's terrorism-fighting ability.

"Moving forward, my administration will interpret and implement the provisions described below in a manner that best preserves the flexibility on which our safety depends and upholds the values on which this country was founded," Obama said in the signing statement.

Signing statements allow presidents to raise constitutional objections to circumvent Congress' intent. During his campaign for the White House, Obama criticized President George W. Bush's use of signing statements and promised to make his application of the tool more transparent.

Obama's signature caps months of wrangling over how to handle captured terrorist suspects without violating Americans' constitutional rights. The White House initially threatened to veto the legislation but dropped the warning after Congress made last-minute changes.

Among the changes the administration secured was striking a provision that would have eliminated executive branch authority to use civilian courts for trying terrorism cases against foreign nationals.

The new law now requires military custody for any suspect who is a member of al-Qaida or "associated forces" and involved in planning or attempting to carry out an attack on the United States or its coalition partners. The president or a designated subordinate may waive the military custody requirement by certifying to Congress that such a move is in the interest of national security.

The administration also pushed Congress to change a provision that would have denied U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism the right to trial and could have subjected them to indefinite detention. Lawmakers eventually dropped the military custody requirement for U.S. citizens or lawful U.S. residents.

"My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens," Obama said in the signing statement. "Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation."

Despite the changes, officials cited serious concerns that the law will complicate and could harm the investigation of terrorism cases.

For example, FBI Director Robert Mueller has said the measure would inhibit his bureau's ability to persuade suspected terrorists to cooperate immediately and provide critical intelligence. He told Congress it wasn't clear how agents should operate if they arrest someone covered by the military custody requirement but the nearest military facility is hundreds of miles away.

Other officials have said agents and prosecutors should not have to spend their time worrying about citizenship status and whether get a waiver while trying to thwart a terror attack.

The administration also raised concerns about an amendment in the bill that goes after foreign financial institutions that do business with Iran's central bank, barring them from opening or maintaining correspondent operations in the United States. It would apply to foreign central banks only for transactions that involve the sale or purchase of petroleum or petroleum products.

Officials worry that the penalties could lead to higher oil prices, damaging the U.S. economic recovery and hurting allies in Europe and Asia that purchase petroleum from Iran.

The penalties do not go into effect for six months. The president can waive them for national security reasons or if the country with jurisdiction over the foreign financial institution has significantly reduced its purchases of Iran oil.

The State Department has said the U.S. was looking at how to put them in place in a way that maximized the pressure on Iran, but meant minimal disruption to the U.S. and its allies.

In response to the threatened penalties, Iran warned this past week that it may disrupt traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital Persian Gulf waterway. U.S. officials say that while they take all threats from Iran seriously, they view this latest warning as little more than saber rattling because disrupting the waterway would harm Iran's economy.

The $662 billion bill authorizes money for military personnel, weapons systems, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and national security programs in the Energy Department for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.

The measure also freezes some $700 million in assistance until Pakistan comes up with a strategy to deal with improvised explosive devices.

Obama signed the bill in Hawaii, where he is vacationing with his family.

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Follow Julie Pace at http://twitter.com/jpaceDC






HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having "serious reservations" about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.

The bill also applies penalties against Iran's central bank in an effort to hamper Tehran's ability to fund its nuclear enrichment program. The Obama administration is looking to soften the impact of those penalties because of concerns that they could lead to a spike in global oil prices or cause economic hardship on U.S. allies that import petroleum from Iran.

In a statement accompanying his signature, the president chastised some lawmakers for what he contended was their attempts to use the bill to restrict the ability of counterterrorism officials to protect the country.

Administration officials said Obama was only signing the measure because Congress made minimally acceptable changes that no longer challenged the president's terrorism-fighting ability.

"Moving forward, my administration will interpret and implement the provisions described below in a manner that best preserves the flexibility on which our safety depends and upholds the values on which this country was founded," Obama said in the signing statement.

Signing statements allow presidents to raise constitutional objections to circumvent Congress' intent. During his campaign for the White House, Obama criticized President George W. Bush's use of signing statements and promised to make his application of the tool more transparent.

Obama's signature caps months of wrangling over how to handle captured terrorist suspects without violating Americans' constitutional rights. The White House initially threatened to veto the legislation but dropped the warning after Congress made last-minute changes.

Among the changes the administration secured was striking a provision that would have eliminated executive branch authority to use civilian courts for trying terrorism cases against foreign nationals.

The new law now requires military custody for any suspect who is a member of al-Qaida or "associated forces" and involved in planning or attempting to carry out an attack on the United States or its coalition partners. The president or a designated subordinate may waive the military custody requirement by certifying to Congress that such a move is in the interest of national security.

The administration also pushed Congress to change a provision that would have denied U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism the right to trial and could have subjected them to indefinite detention. Lawmakers eventually dropped the military custody requirement for U.S. citizens or lawful U.S. residents.

"My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens," Obama said in the signing statement. "Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation."

Despite the changes, officials cited serious concerns that the law will complicate and could harm the investigation of terrorism cases.

For example, FBI Director Robert Mueller has said the measure would inhibit his bureau's ability to persuade suspected terrorists to cooperate immediately and provide critical intelligence. He told Congress it wasn't clear how agents should operate if they arrest someone covered by the military custody requirement but the nearest military facility is hundreds of miles away.

Other officials have said agents and prosecutors should not have to spend their time worrying about citizenship status and whether get a waiver while trying to thwart a terror attack.

The administration also raised concerns about an amendment in the bill that goes after foreign financial institutions that do business with Iran's central bank, barring them from opening or maintaining correspondent operations in the United States. It would apply to foreign central banks only for transactions that involve the sale or purchase of petroleum or petroleum products.

Officials worry that the penalties could lead to higher oil prices, damaging the U.S. economic recovery and hurting allies in Europe and Asia that purchase petroleum from Iran.

The penalties do not go into effect for six months. The president can waive them for national security reasons or if the country with jurisdiction over the foreign financial institution has significantly reduced its purchases of Iran oil.

The State Department has said the U.S. was looking at how to put them in place in a way that maximized the pressure on Iran, but meant minimal disruption to the U.S. and its allies.

In response to the threatened penalties, Iran warned this past week that it may disrupt traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital Persian Gulf waterway. U.S. officials say that while they take all threats from Iran seriously, they view this latest warning as little more than saber rattling because disrupting the waterway would harm Iran's economy.

The $662 billion bill authorizes money for military personnel, weapons systems, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and national security programs in the Energy Department for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.

The measure also freezes some $700 million in assistance until Pakistan comes up with a strategy to deal with improvised explosive devices.

Obama signed the bill in Hawaii, where he is vacationing with his family.

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Follow Julie Pace at http://twitter.com/jpaceDC

[Pianki]

As I have mentioned his suddle administration has lack authoritative substance on many levels. Lets see if thhis satisfies Senator Feinstein concerns.

[Bennetta]

LibyaWest - You make an excellent point that I had not before considered...He DOES always do this shameful, deceptive and harmful sh_t while on His family vacations and/or during major American Holidays when I guess it is assumed most Americans are NOT really paying much attention though our media is soooooo established and controlled by our Government that they didn't even bother to report on this Constituion-changing law in the first place so I say shame on mainstream media too.

GUESS WHAT YOUR PRESIDENT GAVE US FOR A NEW YEARS/CHRISTMAS GIFT?....HIS SIGNED APPROVAL OF AMERICA NOW BECOMING A MARTIAL POLICE STATE....really...

While President Obama issued a signing statement saying he had “serious reservations” about the provisions, the statement only applies to how his administration would use it and would NOT affect how the law is interpreted by subsequent administrations AND he can also change his mind again between now and his last day in office.

According to ACLU, “The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield.”  Therefore, the breadth of the NDAA’s detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the laws of war.     

Thankfully we have three branches of government, and the final word on the scope of detention authority belongs to the Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on the scope of detention authority. But Congress and the president also have a role to play in cleaning up the mess they have created because no American citizen or anyone else should live in fear of this or any future president misusing the NDAA’s detention authority.  

Obama is still a very dangerous consummate of hypocrisy and it still really sickens me that I actually voted for such a person to be my president in the first place.....it feels more personal with this administration because I never voted for Bush anyways so I never took any responsibility for His illegal reinstatement of Cointelpro via the Patriot Act and other such post 9/11 domestic acts against American citizens which have clearly always weighed much heavier on American MINORITY citizens but since Obama has strategically chosen to ignore African Americans during the past three years anyhow, I guess this little fact isn't that relevant to Him.  God please have mercy on our country  and government from this day forward and please give Your Wisdom to ALL Voters in 2012 for the sake of our Constitution, and more importantly, for the sake of Moral Decency and Humanity.

[Bennetta]

WELL IT SHOULDN’T SATISFY SENATORS FEINSTEIN NOR LEVIN’S AMENDMENT SINCE IT IS LIMITED TO CITIZENS CAPTURED ON U.S. SOIL ONLY SO IF THEY CAPTURE YOU OUTSIDE U.S., THEY CAN STILL DO WHATEVER THEY WANT TO YOU UNDER NDAA.  PERIOD.

NDAA’S LEGAL GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITS EXTEND WORLD WIDE AND FAR BEYOND ANY OFFICIAL BATTLEFIELD, I.E., THEY STILL CAN JUST KNOCK ON YOUR FRONT DOOR AND ARREST/CAPTURE YOU RIGHT FROM YOUR OWN LIVING ROOM, IF THEY CHOOSE (see this is now HIS Right as YOUR Commander in Chief under NDAA).  HENCE, CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESSES ARE NO LONGER FULLY AFFORDED TO AMERICAN CITIZENS.  OBAMA’S CHANGE OF MIND TO VETO NDAA I GUESS MAY PARTIALLY BE BASED ON HIS NOW SAYING TO AMERICANS....‘OK EVEN THOUGH I’M STILL SIGNING THIS LAW THAT I HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT, I WILL NOW ALSO ALLOW YOU TO CONTINUE TO HAVE YOUR SO-CALLED CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO TRIAL AND AN OFFICIAL CHARGE BUT ONLY IF CAPTURED ON U.S. SOIL OR I CAN ALSO SUBJECTIVELY ASSUME YOU TO BE A DEFINITE TERRORIST (AS LONG AS I CONSULT WITH CONGRESS ABOUT IT) AND STILL NOT AFFORD YOU EVEN THIS DUE PROCESS’...AND I WONDER HOW OBJECTIVE, FAIR AND LEGAL THAT SO-CALLED TRIAL WILL BE FOR YOU AND I...AND WHO GETS TO SUBJECTIVELY CHOOSE PROSECUTORS AND JURIES FOR THIS SO-CALLED TRIAL THAT I NOW MAY AGAIN BE AFFORDED AS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT.....WHY WOULD MILITARY BE INVOLVED IN SUCH A TRIAL IN THE FIRST PLACE IF I’M NOT BEING ACCUSED OF A MILITARY OFFENSE/CRIME DURING A MILITARY ACT WHILE ON A MILITARY BATTLEFIELD.....HEY I’M NOT EVEN A MEMBER OF U.S. OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY’S MILITARY....JUST A PLAIN OLD U.S CITIZEN SO WHY WOULD MILITARY COMMANDERS BE INVOLVED IN THE DECISION MAKING OF SUCH A JUDICIOUS/LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS ANYHOW.....I DONT REMEMBER THE CONSTITUTION STATING ANY OF THIS....DO YOU?  

MORE IMPORTANTLY, NEVER FORGET THIS LAW APPLIES TO THIS AND ANY FUTURE ADMINISTRATIONS SO NOT ONLY DID OBAMA ADMITTEDLY AGAIN CAVE-IN TO A VERY GOP WAR-LOVING DECISION THAT HE SUPPOSEDLY HAS ‘CONCERNS’ ABOUT BUT THIS PARTICULAR CAVE-IN ALSO ENABLES FUTURE ILL-WILL ADMINISTRATIONS TO DO THE SAME OR WORST TO AMERICANS AND OUR FORMER CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.

Pianki said:

As I have mentioned his suddle administration has lack authoritative substance on many levels. Lets see if thhis satisfies Senator Feinstein concerns.

[Pianki]

@Libya West. Proud of you proud of you.