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The White House has issued the following statement announcing that--and why--it will not veto the NDAA:
Statement from the Press Secretary on the NDAA Bill
We have been clear that “any bill that chall...
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Check out this post from Josh Gerstein of the Politico describing FBI Director Robert Mueller's fears about how the NDAA conference report--even with the latest changes--will still "muddle the roles of t...
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Here is a letter from Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA), the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, defending and clarifying the detention provisions in the NDAA and advocating for its passa...
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For reasons I plan to elaborate upon in this and subsequent posts, I'm not at all convinced that the conference version of the NDAA is substantially better than the House or Senate version (or that eithe...
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I've created concise PDF versions of the NDAA bill and the accompanying explanatory statement, cutting out all the non-detainee materials from both documents.
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Section 1022 of the Conference version of the NDAA carries forward section 1032 of the Senate version, which has been widely described as a mandatory military detention provision for a subset of detainab...
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[UPDATE (12/13/11, 9:45): A careful reader points out that in the earlier Senate bill, there were no commas after the words "United States citizens" and "lawful resident aliens of the United States". So...
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I am still digesting the new NDAA language, and I'm not yet ready to say how come out on it. It is, without question, significantly better than either the House or Senate bills. Yet some of its provision...
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The conference report for the NDAA is now available. Subtitle D, entitled "Counterterrorism," begins on page 653 and runs through page 685. The conferees' explanation of their choices begins on page 158 ...
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President Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, has given an extended interview to NPR on the administration's view of the NDAA's detainee affairs provision and its threat to veto the leg...
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More amusing nonsense from Jon Stewart before the weekend:
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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In a prior post surveying the impact of the Senate version of the NDAA bill (currently in conference negotiations), I emphasized that the Feinstein Amendment made clear that the NDAA did not alter, one w...