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NDAA Signed Into Law By Obama Despite Guantanamo Veto Threat, Indefinite Detention Provisions 

DateThursday, January 3, 2013 at 07:08PM

President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 on Wednesday, despite his own threat to veto it over prohibitions on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

Civil liberties advocates had roundly criticized the bill over Guantanamo and a separate section that could allow the military to indefinitely detain American citizens on suspicions of supporting terrorism.

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