Martial law provision secretly passed in Congress Committee Continue reading on Examiner.com Martia

[Javaman]

http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/martial-law-provision-secretly-passed-congress

A noted human rights group spokesperson has stated that the mandatory military detention provision that the Senate Armed Services Committee secretly discussed and passed this week, is what martial-law states, not democracies do.

The Senate Armed Services Committee's vote this week redefined rules for detaining terrorism suspects, including giving power to military judges to review cases of prisoners in Afghanistan and mandating military detention for important Qaeda suspects even captured on United States soil according to The New York Times.

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The Times reported Friday that "the vote took place in a closed session and the text of the legislation has not been made public."

The secretly discussed and approved package passed with a 25 to 1 vote as part of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. Only a brief summary of the act as a whole has been released.

more at link....

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I don't know what to make of this. Any ideas? secret vote? I'm unable to find either a house or senate bill number.

[XemaSab]

1. Examiner.com

is not a reliable source.

[limpyhobbler]

2. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (NDAA).

The article you linked to was from June 25, 2011, so that's why it is talking about the 25-1 committee vote.

I think they are referring to sections 1031 and 1032 of the National Defense Authorization Act.

There have been a couple other threads on DU about this, I learned about it on this message board.
Here is one of the other threads I saw: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2390916

Here is an article about it:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/11/congress-to-vote-next-week-on-explicitly-creating-a-police-state/

Another article from today:
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/homeland-and-coast-guard/195799-detainee-provision-moves-forward-with-defense-bill


ACLU has a webform to email your senators:
https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3865&s_subsrc=fixNDAA

[Javaman]

3. Thanks! nt