Posted: January 1st, 2012, 7:11pm MSK
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] on Saturday signed [statement] the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 (NDAA) [SB 1867, pdf] into law despite having reservations over certain provisions in the bill. The contentious legislation contains a clause that allows the president to use "all necessary and appropriate force" to detain persons suspected of terrorism. Obama stated that while he supports the bill as a whole, he does not agree with everything in it, specifically the provisions regulating the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists. Obama indicated that his administration's success against al Qaeda [JURIST news archive] and...