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White House lawyers have been recently defending the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. They have been arguing that jailing Americans indefinitely without trial in some instances is necessary for the safety and security of the country.
Tangerine Bolen of Revolution Truth and a plaintiff in the case against the NDAA joins RT's Kristine Frazao to discuss the matter.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)stockholmer
(3,751 posts)It's like W Bush's 'Indefinite Detention' and Clinton's 'Preventative Detention'............only longer.
lib2DaBone
(8,124 posts)C'mon Mr. Obama.... do we really need this?
You have the American people submissive and down on their knees.... what good will this overkill do you?
You approved 30,000 secret drones to spy on Americans, you have privatized our prisons, you can wire tap and eavesdrop at will.. so why do yo need this?
Let's be a little progressive and get behind the people....
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)than in this case.
The shameful shroud of silence around these court
proceedings is deafening.
pam4water
(2,916 posts)and criminalizing journalism dangerous.
BrainMann1
(460 posts)She said president Obama and Mitt Romney would have the same opinion about this. I'm going to leave it at that until I get more research on the matter
drynberg
(1,648 posts)Sorry, ole chaps, tried to warn you with 1984...
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Yup. That's what an otherwise-intelligent coworker told me to explain why he'd never read it.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Dokkie
(1,688 posts)because the alternative is 10x worse. No electoral consequences for him on this and many of the other Bush style policies he kept because we have very limited choice in our elections. Sad but this is 2 party democracy for you.
3128
(30 posts)Let the heavens fall...