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 Do We Need to Worry About the NDAA?Posted on Jan 8, 2012
Ian Masters asks Dahlia Lithwick, a contributing editor at Newsweek and a senior editor and legal correspondent at Slate, to dig into the NDAA and report on whether our civil liberties are as threatened as they seem to be by the defense bill President Obama signed on New Year’s Eve. Advertisement Previous item: 'Left, Right & Center': The (Elusive) Middle-Class Agenda Next item: Did Mitt Romney Really Say He Likes Firing People? New and Improved CommentsWe are launching a major overhaul of our comments section. In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread. Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts. Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with. Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page. |
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By RAE, January 19 at 11:29 am Link to this comment
I’m MORE than astonished at the LACK of uproar by US citizens with the passing of the NDAA 2012.
Do you not care if your country evolves into a fascist state?
Do you not care if your own military can arrest ANYONE, US citizen or not, inside or outside the USA borders, on suspicion only, lay no charges, refuse due process and habeas corpus, incarcerate indefinately in what amount to internment camps of WWII, WITH no access to lawyer or courts?
DO YOU NOT CARE that your President SIGNED this legislation into LAW late on New Year’s Eve while the rest of the country wasn’t watching?
WHAT THE HELL IS MATTER WITH YOU AMERICANS? DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH?
This kind of TERRORISM makes the 9/11 type look like child’s play.
And NO ONE seems to care.
Report thisBy Sombrio, January 12 at 10:24 am Link to this comment
Welcome to the Gulag.
Report thisYours Truly, Ivan Disonviytch.
By A Bird in the Hand, January 10 at 3:16 pm Link to this comment
What is missing here…hmmmm..Where are the hor-des of leftist fascists that are inbred to this site these days????..They have no response to this big slice of Obama-Mamma dictorial tyranny??...They have disappeared, with nary a diatribe, silenced by the machine..Pussies…
READ IT: http://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/NDAA
Can I get just one of you UN-AMERICAN A-HOLES to step up and tell me all about the ‘goodness’ of this brazen act against the Constitution and the American people..Bring it…
Report thisBy gerard, January 9 at 8:49 pm Link to this comment
“... whether our civil liberties are as threatened as they seem to be ...”
Report thisFor the love of God—they shouldn’t be threatened at all ... not even a little bit!
By ElkoJohn, January 9 at 1:59 pm Link to this comment
Pretty darn close to a police state now, don’t ya think.
Report thisBy John Sullivan, January 9 at 9:59 am Link to this comment
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Any interpretation of this law is irrelevant. The fact that this bill was even considered by Congress, let alone signed into law, shows an explicit and unambiguous assault on the fundamentals of democracy.
Report thisBy Jim Michie, January 9 at 6:34 am Link to this comment
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Oh my God! Dahlia Lithwick, your tortuous “interpretation” of the National War (Defense) Authorization Act could be stated in one simple sentence: “I agree with the ACLU criticism of Obama’s signing of the NDAA.”
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