U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest just struck down NDAA, the highly protested law recently signed by Obama that contains a small paragraph allowing for the indefinite detention of persons regardless of citizenship simply based on the military’s suspicion of collusion with al Qaeda, and without requirement of any proof whatsoever. This carte blanche ends when “hostilities” end, or whenever the military would deem it so.
This shocking overriding of the first and fifth amendments was challenged almost immediately by a group of activists including Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky. The group calls themselves “Freedom Seven”.
Read the full story here on Courthouse News Service.
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