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Obama May Bypass Guantánamo Rules, Aides Say
NYT ^ | 1/31/11 | Charlie Savage

Posted on 01/03/2011 8:48:39 PM PST by Nachum

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s legal advisers, confronting the prospect of new restrictions on the transfer of Guantánamo detainees, are debating whether to recommend that he issue a signing statement asserting that his executive powers would allow him to bypass the restrictions, according to several officials. If Mr. Obama were to issue such a statement, it could represent a more aggressive use of unilateral executive powers than what he exerted in his first two years in office. Mr. Obama could act on the measure by the end of the week. The issue has arisen as the Republican Party takes control

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bypass; guantnamo; obama; rules
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To: dennisw

And I don’t know if it has any significance or not, but most of them are well-tanned; if you get my drift.


21 posted on 01/04/2011 5:57:22 PM PST by Tucker39
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To: Tucker39

Africa is full of African style dictators and now we have one too. Aren’t we lucky!


22 posted on 01/04/2011 6:15:16 PM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; ...

Thanks FARS. G’night all!


23 posted on 01/04/2011 8:00:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: FARS

The Mad Emperor 0bamanus Feculence..


24 posted on 01/06/2011 10:43:54 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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