"Hope"...

[Karma]

Pres. Obama signed NDAA into law & made an empty statement saying HIS administration wouldn't enforce/endorse the part of the law that permits indefinite detention of american citizens w/out due process or even the assassination of american citizens deemed "terrorists"...I have to wonder who he thinks he's pacifying w/THAT statement? It's likely that he won't be reelected & so what about the person (& his/her administration) that comes after him?

He's starting to show himself to be more & more a corporate fascist hand maiden.

I'm NOT a republican & I despise this "new breed" of them (the tea party) I'm ALSO not a card carrying democrat. I AM liberal. But i think whatever "side" you're on....the president signing the NDAA should be something we should ALL agree is a BAD thing.

Your thoughts?

 

[Richard Martin]

He only supported it after a final compromise that weakened the things you take issue with. Here is one analysis of the changes.

[The NDAA] says that the president has to hold a foreign Al Qaeda suspect captured on US soil in military detention — except it leaves enough procedural loopholes that someone like convicted underwear bomber and Nigerian citizen Umar Abdulmutallab could actually go from capture to trial without ever being held by the military.

It does not, contrary to what many media outlets have reported, authorize the president to indefinitely detain without trial an American citizen suspected of terrorism who is captured in the US. A last minute compromise amendment adopted in the Senate, whose language was retained in the final bill, leaves it up to the courts to decide if the president has that power, should a future president try to exercise it. But if a future president does try to assert the authority to detain an American citizen without charge or trial, it won’t be based on the authority in this bill.