Obama tweaks NDAA

[The Northerner]

In December of last year, the US Congress voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act. The bill will allows the indefinite detention and torture of American citizens without a trial. This week President Obama has tweaked the highly controversial bill making it discretionary for the military to detain suspects, but it still gives him the authority to detain suspects. So does this change restore liberties that were originally stripped? David Seaman, journalist and host of the DL Show, joins us to analyze the changes.

[midnight]

1. For weeks it was argued that Obama was not saying, via the NDAA, that Americans would be arrested

without any reason and kept indefinitely by our military or for them... Now it is being amended, via a directive that says, it will be discretionary... Just amend the whole pile of this draconian law and the patriot act... and get rid of both at once...

[KG]

5. only the willfully ignorant believed that

[JDPriestly]

2. K&R

This is far more important than any other issue we have been dealing with lately.

Homeland security is important, but that department is way out of hand. And it will become more and more active and dangerous as time goes on.

Homeland security and the NDAA are the result of the huge gap between the Beltway and the rest of the country. Out here where most of us live, Homeland security and all the surveillance seems like such a waste, such a silly waste. We don't view our neighbors and friends, the people we meet in stores, in buses, on planes and trains and in our workplaces as threats. We know they aren't threats to anything. So why this big fuss? At whom are these draconian measures aimed? At us? Why?

A boondoggle, that's all it is.

One of these days, some tragedy will occur because someone in Homeland security or some affiliated or similar agency turns out to be a psycho, and then the whole boondoggle will unravel.

[midnight]

3. Agree this needs more attention...

[WhoIsNumberNone]

4. So NDAA took effect on the same day as the new Google privacy policy?

Interesting.

[midnight]

6. But everyone is too busy, being mad at Rush, and the other Republican clowns running

about talking about manly stuff, to care.... OMG but we are in trouble...