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"The NDAA also for the first time mandates the military detention of covered terrorism suspects, defined broadly to include members of al-Qaeda and associated groups who are planning or who have participated in attacks against the United States. Under the NDAA, the military detention of those covered terrorism suspects is no longer merely an option but a requirement. The NDAA thus creates a new and unprecedented default rule of military detention, usurping the authority traditionally vested in civilian law enforcement. It flouts the principles on which the US was founded: that civilian authority must be supreme over the military, and that even those accused of the most serious crimes are entitled to a trial and the other protections of the Bill of Rights."
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Jonathan Hafetz’s “Obama’s failed human rights moment”

A pretty solid opinion piece with important information, particularly for those that think the overwhelming (and appropriate) negative reaction to the NDAA has been knee-jerk or the stuff of fear mongering.

Because there are detainees that have been held in Guantanamo for over ten years without charge or trial, there are inmates being held in CMUs without reason and with almost no contact with the outside world, there are inmates that have been held at prisons (like Pelican Bay) in solitary confinement for 10 years. It’s important to note that even inmates in “civil custody” are abused by the “justice system”, but what is essentially the extension of the War on Terror is horrifying. If you’re not outraged, you’re not doing it right.

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