World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/13-4

US Citizens' Due Process Rights Saved from the NDAA s Indefinite Detention
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/13-12

Obama Fights for Power of Indefinite Military Detention
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/18-9

Judges to Review Constitutionality of NDAA Military Detention Legislation
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/09/28

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Administration Asks Appeals Court for Stay on Indefinite Detention Ban, Triggers Constitutional Showdown

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: '''This may be the most significant constitutional standoff since the Pentagon Papers case,' said Carl Mayer, co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11581-administration-asks-appeals-court-for-stay-on-indefinite-detention-ban-triggers-constitutional-showdown

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Why does the government so desperately want indefinite detention for terror suspects?

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

09/21/12

What is the government doing? Last year, when Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with its contentious passages endorsing the mandatory military detention of terror suspects, there was uproar across the political spectrum from Americans who believed that it would be used on U.S. citizens...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1209p.asp



How Obama came to be the biggest defender of indefinite detention

Reason
by JD Tuccille

09/21/12

Perhaps it s all for the best that the Obama administration oversaw the scrubbing of civil liberties vows that graced the 2008 Democratic Party platform from the 2012 edition. It's one thing to promise to end practices implemented by your nefarious political opponents; it s quite another to commit to ending abuses you yourself have practiced without restraint...

http://bit.ly/PyMIVy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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