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.”
Does this mean they have to return him?
Law? We don’t need no stinkin Laws.
And the punishment for breaking this law is? At what point do we impeach the president for breaking laws?
Say it isn’t so.
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violated a “clear and unambiguous” law <<<<
It was deliberate; do you think he cares?
He won’t be held accountable.
Guess the GAO didn’t get the memo about the newly-created “executive-legislative” branch of American government...
Um...two strokes and a free drop?
Uh, oh, racists have permeated the GAO. They said something bad about Obama...
Hey, he's judicial, too! Don't forget that...
I keep hoping he’ll resign . . . but nothing seems to phase him or the Democrats. They just keep on and the Republicans just sit by & watch.
"So? Sue me...."
So...
When’s the indictment?
I guess this means the members of the GAO can expect to be audited next year.
So???
It’s no “law” if it is not enforced by those charged with upholding the rule of law when violated.
This government is wholly illegitimate.
Yea. so what. It’s not like anyone is going to do anything
about it anyway.
Which makes them complicit, along with each of us that still support the traitorous wretches. It's time to meet our patriotic duty and end all support of the GOP until which time they choose to back America, instead of letting the rats walk all over them.
It's all over the news: "The President Violated Federal Law" - that's all the network talking heads and commentators want to discuss.
Can we have just one front page story that isn't about Obama breaking the law?
Oh, wait . . .
Hey! Qatar paid good American dollars to Obama to get those terrorists released. It’s called Democrat Fundraising.
FOX news website is reporting this as the Pentagon is responsible for braking the law. I guess those at FOX news fail to realize that obozo is in charge of the Pentagon and Secretary Hagel has to get obozo’s permission to go to the bathroom.
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