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As he signs NDAA (whenever that is), Obama will issue a signing statement

Posted on December 22, 2011 by MCM

Holder: Obama Will Issue Signing Statement With NDAA Detention Rules
RYAN J. REILLY DECEMBER 21, 2011, 4:02 PM

Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed speculation Wednesday that President Barack Obama would issue a signing statement when he makes the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its controversial detention provisions law.

“We made really substantial progress in moving from something that was really unacceptable to the administration to something with which we still have problems,” Holder said in response to a question from the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Perez. “But I think through these procedures, with these regulations we will be crafting, we can minimize the problems that will actually affect us in an operational way.”

Holder said the language of the NDAA had been moved in a “substantial way” from some of the original language which led the president to issue a veto threat.

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