I just found this today. It is an article from the New York Times that says that just hours after signing the defense bill and with it the torture ban into law the White House issued a Presidential statement which said, "...the administration would interpret the amendment "in a manner consistent with the constitutional authority of the president to supervise the unitary executive branch and as commander in chief and consistent with the constitutional limitations on judicial power." In other words, I may have signed it but I didn't mean it and I will take that sh@t under advisement.
Obviously, Senator McCain and others who vociferously supported the bill and the torture ban in particular are not happy.
Is this a case, yet again, of the President trying to make the Executive Branch have undue power and is it legal? John Dean, former White House counsel to President Nixon, asks that question.
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