Reply #20: You're correct ...

[doublethink]

Senate Kills Effort To Ban Indefinite Military Detentions Of U.S. Citizens


... The overall Defense bill passed Thursday night 93-7, but it will now have to be meshed with a differing version in the House. As part of the detention compromise, Feinstein extracted a promise from Senate leaders that they would insist on the Senate's new language remaining in the final product. It could change, however.

The American Civil Liberties Union found the compromise troubling, and said the president should still veto the bill because even with the no-change language, the measure sets in stone the military's ability to operate inside the U.S. borders.

"The bill is an historic threat to American citizens and others because it expands and makes permanent the authority of the president to order the military to imprison without charge or trial American citizens," said ACLU senior legislative counsel Christopher Anders in a statement.

"The final amendment to preserve current detention restrictions could turn out to be meaningless and Sens. Levin and Graham made clear that they believe this power to use the military against American citizens will not be affected by the new language," Anders said. "This bill puts military detention authority on steroids and makes it permanent. If it becomes law, American citizens and others are at real risk of being locked away by the military without charge or trial." -snip-

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/military-detention-us-citizens_n_1124534.html?1322789098


note: Seems this is going to end up in the Supreme Court at some point .... which I am not comfortable with in it's current makeup. So who knows. Peace.