Posted: 18 Jul 2013 10:29 PM PDT
The
Obama administration has won the latest battle in their fight to
indefinitely detain US citizens and foreigners suspected of being
affiliated with terrorists under the National Defense Authorization Act
of 2012.
Congress granted the president the authority to arrest and hold
individuals accused of terrorism without due process under the NDAA, but
Mr. Obama said in an accompanying signing statement that he will not
abuse these privileges to keep American citizens imprisoned
indefinitely. These assurances, however, were not enough to keep a group
of journalists and human rights activists from filing a federal lawsuit
last year, which contested the constitutionality of Section 1021, the
particular provision that provides for such broad power
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