What caused an unholy trinity of Republicans, Democrats and the President to trash the Constitution?

[JDPriestly]

7. Interesting hypothesis.

What terrible and frightful scenario is going on at this very moment that caused an unholy trinity of Republicans, Democrats and the President to literally trash the Constitution and 200 years of successful separation of military and civilian authority?

Somewhere, I suspect, there’s at least one American citizen already being held by U.S. military forces, whom they suspect of being involved in something so horrible that they have to keep him or her locked up while they try to unravel the mess that he or she is involved with. And… if the past is any teacher, that American probably worked for the U.S. military, some American contractor, or the CIA before becoming an enemy of the state. The president must have called key members of Congress into his office and told them the story, showed them horrifying pictures, and told them he needed the authority to do whatever it was he wanted to do or the world as we know it would end.

http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2012/01/05/theres-something-theyre-not-telling-us-president-signs-indefinite-detention-law/

Did someone in the military or CIA do something really treasonous? That could be the problem. I don't think Manning would be the suspect this law was written for. Could be someone else.

This is, of course, just a theory, but it is intriguing.

I can't imagine that OWS was the impetus for the writing of this law. OWS may be a pain in the neck to the authorities, but it is not an insurrection, not even approaching it. And the authorities know it. OWS is mostly well educated people with unfulfilled dreams and lots to lose, not violent revolutionaries.

The article suggests that there must be something else behind this.

Sounds like a conspiracy theory, but then those theories are not always wrong -- rarely true, but not always wrong.