Obama to sign indefinite detention bill into law<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter spend months threatening a veto, the President decides instead to codify the first such bill since the 1950s\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
"President Obama will go down in history as the president who enshrined indefinite detention without trial in US law." Yup. True, there isn't a single person running for office right now who I dislike or mistrust less, if not on this then on other profoundly important issues. 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