Barack Obama actually said...

Removing that tool from the executive branch does not serve our national security.

I will not tolerate that result, and under no circumstances will my Administration accept or adhere to a rigid across-the-board requirement ...

I want to clarify that my administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens.

Thousands of individuals living in the United States and still more abroad suffer in silence under the intolerable yoke of modern slavery.