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Here's another civil liberties weigh-in:
“Detention without charge is a regime we don’t want to see,” said Sarah E. Mendelson, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies who led a study of options for closing Guantánamo. “Having an executive order rather than Congressional legislation is even worse. Then, it’s a continuation of the kind of super power within the executive branch that you saw with the Bush administration.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/us/politics/27detain.html
And from Mathew J. Franck at NRO (via Ari Melber on Twitter):
The (Inevitable) Assertion of Executive Power
[after mentioning the executive order and signing statement]...The world sure looks different after you take that oath of office, doesn't it? How easily campaign declarations of outrage are forgotten! I bet there's not a president since Truman who hasn't learned to loathe the Supreme Court's decision in the Steel Seizure Case.http://bench.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWYxMDkyNzgyMDI4MWFlODQ5ZTE1MzRjYzQ5NzEwYmY=
