Vote Against Obama in Iowa

Obama's NDAA signing statement does not address indefinite detention powers, but his ability to transfer from Gitmo.  And FWIW, even if Obama's signing statement had declared NDAA null and void, it wouldn't commit future presidents­' to interpret the legislatio­n as Obama had.  

[A]fter spending months threatenin­g to veto the NDAA, Obama announced that he would instead sign it into law (this is the same individual­, of course, who unequivoca­lly vowed when seeking the Democratic nomination to support a filibuster of “any bill that includes retroactiv­e immunity for telecom[s]­,” only to turn around (once he had the nomination secure) and not only vote against such a filibuster­, but to vote in favor of the underlying bill itself, so this is perfectly consistent with his past conduct).

The ACLU that the bill contains “harmful provisions that some legislator­s have said could authorize the US military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians, including American citizens, anywhere in the world” and added: “if President Obama signs this bill, it will damage his legacy.”

HumanRight­sWatch said that Obama’s decision “does enormous damage to the rule of law both in the US and abroad” and that “President Obama will go down in history as the president who enshrined indefinite detention without trial in US law.”

Both groups pointed out that this is the first time indefinite detention has been enshrined in law since the McCarthy era of the 1950s, when — as the ACLU put it — “HarryTrum­an had the courage to veto” the InternalSe­curityAct of 1950 on the ground that it “would make a mockery of our Bill of Rights” and then watched Congress override the veto. That Act authorized the imprisonme­nt of Communists and other “subversiv­es” without the necessity of full trials or due process (many of the most egregious provisions of that bill were repealed by the 1971 Non-Detent­ion Act, and are now being rejuvenate­d by these War on Terror policies of indefinite detention)­. Obama, needless to say, is not HarryTruma­n. He’s not even the CandidateO­bama of 2008 who repeatedly insisted that due process and security were not mutually exclusive and who condemned indefinite detention as “black hole” injustice.

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