Washington Times
by Charlie Savage
January 3, 2013

President Obama set aside his veto threat and late Wednesday signed a defense bill that imposes restrictions on transferring detainees out of military prisons in Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But he attached a signing statement claiming that he has the constitutional power to override the limits in the law.

The move awakened a dormant issue from Mr. Obama’s first term: his broken promise to close the Guantánamo prison. Lawmakers intervened by imposing statutory restrictions on transfers of prisoners to other countries or into the United States, either for continued detention or for prosecution.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/us/pol...i=5065&_r=1&;

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But he attached a signing statement claiming that he has the constitutional power to override the limits in the law.

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He's been drunk on power since day one, but he must have been skeptical about crossing the "lawmakers" again.