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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNDAA in court over indefinite detention of Americans
After much debate on a new law signed by President Barack Obama, House Republicans are throwing around the idea of reviewing the National Defense Authorization Act after the law was challenged in court.
Seven witnesses appeared in front of US District Judge Katherine Forrest in New York on Thursday. Among the seven individuals,a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Chris Hedges was responsible for filing the lawsuit believes the indefinite detention portion of the law could result in his imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay for merely doing his job.
Hedges a repeated guest on RT is an author, columnist for TruthDig.Com and a Middle-East expert, expressed in Federal court that the NDAA would have an effect on journalists and activists worldwide.
I think its [NDAA] clearly unconstitutional, certainly the lawyers Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer who are bringing the case believe it is unconstitutional, Hedges said to RT.
Read more: http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-law-detention-military-883/
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NDAA in court over indefinite detention of Americans (Original Post)
The Northerner
Mar 2012
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Aww c'mon..what could go wrong with indefinite detention under a Democratic president?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2012
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Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)1. Aww c'mon..what could go wrong with indefinite detention under a Democratic president?
Union Scribe
(7,099 posts)2. Rock on, Chris Hedges. nt
KG
(28,749 posts)3. rec.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)4. RT. LOL...nt
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sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)5. RT, one of the best international and national news outlets where real journalists, not talking
heads are actually allowed to speak without being shouted down by moronic, rightwing loons. It if finally a news media outlet with that, up to now, mythical 'Liberal Bias'.
Rightwingers of course hate it, and RT in turn does what our own media ought to do and what Media Matters does, rips apart the lies of the Right. It is hard to understand why anyone on the Left would not welcome an opportunity to finally get some actual news uncensored by Corporations and to see long-silenced voices on the US Media, people like Amy Goodman eg finally treated with the respect they deserve.