Who did we elect to save us from what?

“WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday abandoned its threat to veto a defense bill that sets in stone the commander in chief’s authority to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects, including Americans, in military custody.”
Hommage à Peter Watkins, Fablog, December 15, 2011

There can be no sane reason for this to be true and the existing law must be changed as well.