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Veto Threats and the NDAA
I was just reading a piece by Adam Serwer (Mother Jones) regarding the NDAA detainee provisions, and came across this pithy line from Ben:
"If Congress is going to take the president seriously, it has to believe the president is prepared to use the National Defense Authorization Act as toilet paper," says Ben Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.Priceless.
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I was just reading a piece by Adam Serwer (Mother Jones) regarding the NDAA detainee provisions, and came across this pithy line from Ben:
"If Congress is going to take the president seriously, it has to believe the president is prepared to use the National Defense Authorization Act as toilet paper," says Ben Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.Priceless.
Robert (Bobby) Chesney is the Dean of the University of Texas School of Law, where he also holds the James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs at UT. He is known internationally for his scholarship relating both to cybersecurity and national security. He is a co-founder of Lawfare, the nation’s leading online source for analysis of national security legal issues, and he co-hosts the popular show The National Security Law Podcast.
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