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Subject: Obama Administration
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mohdshuj 13.12.11 - 06:26am
Demanded Power To Indefinitely Detain U.S. Citizens........Despite reports that Obama is planning to veto the National Defense Authorization Act, Senator Carl Levin has revealed it was the administration itself that lobbied to remove language from the bill that would have protected American citizens from being detained indefinitely without trial. * +

mohdshuj 13.12.11 - 06:27am
The language which precluded the application of Section 1031 to American citizens was in the bill that we originally approvedand the administration asked us to remove the language which says that U.S. citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section, said Levin, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee * +

mohdshuj 13.12.11 - 06:28am
It was the administration that asked us to remove the very language which we had in the bill which passed the committeewe removed it at the request of the administration, said Levin, emphasizing, It was the administration which asked us to remove the very language the absence of which is now objected to * +

mohdshuj 13.12.11 - 06:28am
Section 1031 of the NDAA bill, which itself defines the entirety of the United States as a battlefield, allows American citizens to be sn*tched from the streets, carted off to a foreign detention camp and held indefinitely without trial * +

mohdshuj 13.12.11 - 06:28am
The bill states that any person who has committed a belligerent act faces indefinite detention, but no trial or evidence has to be presented, the White House merely needs to make the accusation * +

mohdshuj 13.12.11 - 06:29am
Confusingly, Obama threatened a veto for 1032, but NOT 1031. 1032 is UNRELATED to imprisoning citizens without a trial. Obama has never suggested using a veto to stop Section 1031 citizen imprisonment, * +

mohdshuj 13.12.11 - 06:29am
The notion that the administration lobbied for language that would have protected American citizens and legal residents from indefinite detention to be removed from the bill is unsurprising given Obamas policy with regard to predator drone strikes * +

mohdshuj 13.12.11 - 06:30am
The White House has asserted the right to carry out state-sponsored assassination anywhere in the world without having to provide any evidence or go through any legal process. The administration merely has to state that the target is a terrorist * +

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