{"id":17757,"date":"2015-11-25T17:08:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17757"},"modified":"2015-11-26T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T00:10:11","slug":"cheers-and-jeers-as-ndaa-signed-by-obama-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/25\/cheers-and-jeers-as-ndaa-signed-by-obama-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheers and Jeers as NDAA Signed by Obama Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHEERS:     <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

People of Faith Declare VICTORY in Effort to Pass Ban on CIA Torture<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

" Earlier today, President Obama signed into law the FY 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The NDAA included a provision authored by Senator McCain and Senator Feinstein that makes permanent the ban on CIA torture."<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nrcat.org\/about-us\/nrcat-press-releases\/1146-people-of-faith-declare-victory-in-effort-to-pass-ban-on-cia-torture<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If you want to refresh your memory a tad on this issue which has been alive for many years:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.humanrightsfirst.org\/resource\/faq-mccain-feinstein-anti-torture-ndaa-amendment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/news\/cia-torture\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2014\/12\/cia-torture-report-abuses-rectal-feeding<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2014\/12\/cia-senate-torture-report-untrained-agents-made-up-torture-methods<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2014\/12\/torture-report-dick-cheney-110306<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

MIXED:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Obama signs defense bill, finalizing military retirement overhaul<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Also addresses paid patriotism with sports teams, personal firearms on bases and gender neutral occupational standards.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/story\/military\/pentagon\/2015\/11\/25\/obama-ndaa-defense-bill-military-retirement-overhaul\/76302160\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

JEERS:   <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Obama signs bill making Gitmo closure tougher<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/obama-signs-bill-making-gitmo-closure-tougher-225826961.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You decide, did he get the best he could from this Congress?  Did we make some progress? <\/span><\/p>\n

And finally, will federal agencies like DOJ finally get to read the Senate Report?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHEERS:     People of Faith Declare VICTORY in Effort to Pass Ban on CIA Torture " Earlier today, President Obama signed into law the FY 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The NDAA included a provision authored by Senator McCain and Senator Feinstein that makes permanent the ban on CIA torture." http:\/\/www.nrcat.org\/about-us\/nrcat-press-releases\/1146-people-of-faith-declare-victory-in-effort-to-pass-ban-on-cia-torture   If you want […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}