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Old 05-27-2011, 10:04 AM   #6389
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As for the autopen thing, I'm not bothered by it absent any indication that the president did not authorize its use. But it may be of interest (but probably not, though 12 pages in I'm finding it surprisingly so) that the White House Office of Legal Counsel issued a report on the issue in 2005, finding that it does meet constitutional requirements for the president to authorize a subordinate to affix his signature, not to delegate the decision).

http://www.justice.gov/olc/2005/opinion_07072005.pdf

Oh, and to answer the original question on how I feel. I feel like the president may have made a deicision with which I disagree. I also feel that presidents do that all the time and so long as I don't feel the president is acting in bad faith, I don't hold it against him. I felt the same when the Patriot Act was first passed. I disagreed with it then, but I didn't think it evil. Some of the ways it was used later, however, changed that.
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