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Senate strips ‘indefinite detention’ for Americans from 2012 NDAA
The U.S. Senate approved an amendment on Thursday that strips a controversial provision from the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that allows the “indefinite detention” of American citizens within the U.S. by the military. The amendment passed by a vote of 67 to 29. All but four of the Senators…
Court restores Obama’s indefinite detention power
A federal appeals court has temporarily frozen a lower court’s order that blocked the Obama administration from arresting and imprisoning American citizens without evidence or trial. Judge Raymond Lohier, nominated by President Barack Obama to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, issued a stay Tuesday on an…
Chris Hedges: Ruling overturning indefinite detention provision of NDAA is ‘huge’
Earlier this week, a federal judge blocked a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act which had provided for the possibility of indefinite detention of anyone, including American citizens, charged with providing “substantial support” for terrorist organizations. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, who was one of the plaintiffs in the…
House rejects bill that would have limited indefinite detention on U.S. soil
US lawmakers struck down a contentious provision Friday that would have curtailed the government’s power to indefinitely hold suspected terrorists captured on American soil. The measure, backed by an odd coalition of liberal Democrats and some Tea Party-backed Republican conservatives, had sought to ensure that suspected terrorists detained in the…
Sen. Udall calls for repeal of indefinite detention provisions
Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) on Thursday voiced his support for legislation that would prohibit individuals detained in the United States from being indefinitely detained or transferred to a foreign country. “Our Constitution is in many ways the most powerful weapon we have against those who mean us harm,” he said.…
Support for indefinite detention still hinges on ‘reading terrorists their rights’
At a long overdue Senate committee hearing Wednesday, vocal upport for the controversial indefinite detention rules in last year’s defense authorization act finally reared its head, seeming to still hinge on just one thing: as one witness essentially said, reading terrorists their rights may just prove fatal. Appearing before the Senate…
Congress calls witnesses to speak on dangers of indefinite detention
A series of witnesses called to testify before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on indefinite detention Wednesday morning will outline just how dangerous a president’s “unchecked authority” is to the freedoms Americans hold dear, giving lawmakers historical context on moments when American politicians ignored the principles enshrined in the Magna…
Republicans invite torture architect to testify in favor of indefinite detention
A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday will present lawmakers with their first opportunity to begin tearing down the indefinite detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), but two of the nation’s leading civil rights groups are warning that Republicans have taken an unprecedented and even “chilling” step…
Massachusetts town vows to defy indefinite detention law
A small town in Massachusetts says it is “opting out” of a federal law that allows the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without trial. The city of Northampton on Thursday passed a strongly worded resolution (PDF) to protest provisions of the federal government’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which even…
Ron Paul proposes bill to repeal indefinite detention provision
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) introduced legislation to the U.S House on Wednesday that would repeal Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. The $662 billion defense spending bill contained controversial provisions, Sections 1021 and 1022, that required terrorism suspects to be detained by the military without trial,…
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