foreign countries regarding the circumstances of detainee transfers. mike this is a constitutional argument that the article 2 commander in chief, power of the president overrides the stipulations or restrictions placed on these releases under the nbaa? it is, chris, a constitutional argument and not a new one. language similar to this dates back several years in these signing statements and the president is the commander in chief of the armed forces, has to be able to make command decisions quickly in a time of armed conflict and the president and the administration have consistently taken the position these notification conditions could under certain circumstances come into conflict with the president s responsibility to be the commander in chief. you have all these people trying to close guantanamo fref, the whole universe of human rights lawyers and so forth who have been told by the white house, we can t just wave a magic wand. there are laws, restrictions. we need to certify
the flexible, among other things, to act swiftly in conducting negotiations with foreign countries regarding the circumstances of detainee transfers. mike this is a constitutional argument that the article 2 commander in chief, power of the president overrides the stipulations or restrictions placed on these releases under the nbaa? it is, chris, a constitutional argument and not a new one. language similar to this dates back several years in these signing statements and the president is the commander in chief of the arnold formed forc to be able to make command decisions quickly in a time of armed conflict and the president and the administration have consistently taken the position these notification conditions could under certain circumstances come into conflict with the president s responsibility to be the commander in chief. you have all these people trying to close guantanamo fref, the whole universe of human rights lawyers and so forth who have been told by the white house,