Obama Wins Back Right to Indefinitely Detain American Citizens
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The Obama administration has won the latest battle in their fight to indefinitely detain US citizens and foreigners suspected of being affiliated with terrorists under the NDAA
Shocking, Degrading and Inhumane…
“I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.”
The NDAA and the Death of Democracy
On Wednesday a few hundred activists crowded into the courtroom of the Second Circuit, the spillover room with its faulty audio feed and dearth of chairs, and Foley Square outside the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan where many huddled in the cold
When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes a Duty
The Unjust NDAA: What President Obama hoped you wouldn’t notice and what the media refuses to report: indefinite detention of American citizens without charge or trial
Signed Into Law: Americans Can Be Detained Indefinitely Without Charge or Trial
President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 on Wednesday, giving his stamp of approval to a Pentagon spending bill that will keep Guantanamo Bay open and make indefinite detention for US citizens as likely as ever
Worst Leadership in American History
As 2012 comes to a close, the 112th Congress is set to go down in American history as the most unproductive session since the 1940s
‘Abomination’
The controversial NDAA bill, which allows for the indefinite detention of US citizens, was approved by the Senate despite White House threats to veto the legislation
Indefinite Detention of Americans Without Charge or Trial is Back… Again
Lawmakers in Washington have stripped an amendment from next year’s National Defense Authorization Act that could have kept the government from indefinitely detaining US citizens without charge or trial
Congress Quietly Abandons the Fifth Amendment…
What everyone must understand is that American politics doesn’t work the way you’d think it would. Most people presume that government officials would never willfully withhold penicillin from men with syphilis just to see what would happen if the disease went untreated
Supreme Court Emergency Motion Filed by NDAA Opponents
Opponents of the post-9/11 use of indefinite military detention have filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to block a law they say allows innocent American citizens to be locked away without trial
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