04.03.2012 - 14:18 [ Lawfare ]

Initial Comments on the Implementing Procedures for NDAA Section 1022

Bottom line: The President has–rightly in my view–read this law virtually out of existence. This is not a breach of faith with Congress, which in negotiations with the administration, so watered the provision down that, as signed, it reasonably lends itself to this reading. In fact, the provision–as Bobby has shown in earlier posts–would actually bear a more aggressive reading than President Obama has giv