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In reply to the discussion: I'm astonished so many DUers are cool with ending Habeas Corpus [View all]Martin Eden
(12,845 posts)Words have meaning, and were no doubt very carefully chosen in the NDAA. There is a world of difference between requirement to detain and authority to detain. A requirement is something the military is compelled to do, and doesn't have to be construed as prohibiting detention or denying authority to detain.
Also troubling is the phrase who is determined ... to be al Qaeda. Who makes that determination? It seems pretty clear it is done without due process of law, effectively sentencing a person to potential lifetime incarceration on the basis of accusation or circumstance.
I am not at all reassured by the text of the NDAA you posted to support the argument that Constitutional protections can't be bypassed or that this doesn't potentially give the military authority to detain and indefinitely hold American citizens and/or people who may be innocent.