Jonathan Turley chimes in on Obama & the NDAA. Another Constitutional scholar is appalled.

[bhikkhu]

70. Exactly - it is the primary point

Along with improving income equality, ending the wars and retiring the AUMF is the one most important thing that should be the issue of the next election, as I've said over and over here every time the NDAA is brought up. Its absurd to say "Obama just did this", "this has never been done before", "now its a police state", etc...absurdity that misses the primary point serves no purpose but to make people less intelligent, and a productive outcome at the next election less likely.

How clearly have any candidates standing for the next election stated their positions on continuing the war, or their plans to bring it to a close? Yet we have endless criticism and chest-thumping over the wording of a nearly irrelevant recent document - leading to nothing.

As far as Turley, he was involved as a supporter of the Clinton impeachment, which is about all I need to know. Perhaps that makes me closed minded, but anyone who was paying attention back then is likely to understand.