Obama’s Signing Statement on NDAA: I have the power to detain Americans… but I won’t

0bama's Imperial Presidency

"As Americans look upon the treacherous legislation passed under NDAA 2012, it it should first be remembered that the very bill President Obama threatened to veto was controversial due to the language the Obama White House itself pressured Congress to add to the bill, according to Sen. Carl Levin.

"Second, signing statements are not law, and are not a Constitutional power granted to the executive branch; any reassuring (or troubling) language within has no binding status– though it may shed light on the intent/character of the chief executive. However, the statement itself does not indicate any deviation of intent from the law as written and signed."

Didn't 0bama use to criticize Bush for "signing statements?" What a hypocrite! Besides, 0bama doesn't guarantee our constitutional rights. He can't say out of one side of his lying mouth that he has the power to indefinitely detain American citizens without evidence, charges or a trial while saying out of the other side of his lying mouth that he won't.

American Citizens off to Guantanamo

President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Bill Into Law

“Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back the constitutional excesses of George Bush in the war on terror was extinguished today. Thankfully, we have three branches of government, and the final word 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.”

~ Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director, on 0bama's signing of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDDA)