Charles Tiefer: More to NDAA veto than meets the eye

When President Barack Obama vetoed the annual defense authorization bill earlier this month, most of the attention was on overall federal spending levels and...

Charles Tiefer, professor of law, University of Baltimore

When President Barack Obama vetoed the annual defense authorization bill earlier this month, most of the attention was on overall federal spending levels and restrictions on closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay. But in a recent column for Forbes, Charles Tiefer points out that the President raised a lot of other objections having to do with wasteful spending and Congress' ongoing refusal to authorize another round of base closures. Tiefer, a professor of law at the University of Baltimore, told In Depth with Francis Rose the other issues in the President's veto message deserve more public attention than they've gotten.

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