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You can read the detention-specific portions of the December 14th House debate on the conference report here.
Here are some highlights:
Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL) presented a strident oppositio...
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It may surprise some readers, but I find myself oddly attracted to the Due Process Guarantee Act--which Steve described last night. The bill is cast as a response to the NDAA detention authorization prov...
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Well that was fast...
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The Senate just voted for final passage for the NDAA conference report (H.R. 1540). The vote was overwhelming: 86-to-13. All seven senators who voted against the Senate version earlier this month (S.1867...
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The House has passed the conference version of the NDAA. It will go on to the Senate, probably coming up tomorrow (Thursday). With the White House veto threat lifted, the NDAA likely will be law in ver...
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Back in May, I noted that the House version of the NDAA contained a very interesting section addressing “military activities” in cyberspace. Section 962 of that bill would have “affirmed” that DOD may c...
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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...