Glenn Greenwald Comments on Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens in Pending NDAA Approval

[The Northerner]

www.democracynow.org - The $662 billion National Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress last week includes controversial provisions that could usher in a radical expansion of indefinite detention under the U.S. government by authorizing the military to jail anyone it considers a terrorism suspect anywhere in the world without charge or trial. "Congress, with the Democrats in control of the Senate and a Democratic president, is about to enact into law the first bill that will say that the military and the United States government do have this power," says Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com blogger and constitutional law attorney. "It's muddled whether it applies to U.S. citizens on U.S. soil, but it's clearly indefinite detention, and there's a very strong case to make that it includes U.S. citizens as well, which, as we know, the Obama administration already claims anyway, and that's what makes it so dangerous."

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1. Goodbye, Habeus Corpus, so long Posse Comitatus... hello

Militarized Corporate Police State.

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scary and disgraceful that any president could sign this bill into law