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Rand Paul on "Indefinite Detention" Provision of Defense Authorization Act : 11/29/11

Rand Paul Aims to Kill "Indefinite Detention" Provision of Controversial Bill Head of Japanese American Citizens League warns that bill has echoes of World War II-style internment without charge With the bill expected to be up for a vote within 48 hours, Senator Rand Paul has offered an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that will kill a provision allowing the military to detain individuals, including American citizens, without trial or due process. The "indefinite detention" sections of the NDAA bill would turn the whole of the United States into a "battlefield" and hand the executive branch the power to have the military arrest US citizens and hold them without trial. The provision is merely an update to the "parallel legal system" had been in place under the auspices of the war on terror for over a decade, "In which terrorism suspects — US citizens and noncitizens alike — may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system," as the Washington Post reported in December 2002. In attempt to kill the indefinite detention provision of the legislation, Senator Rand Paul aims to strike Section 1031 from the bill, which reads as follows. "Congress affirms that the authority of the President to use all necessary and appropriate force...includes the authority for the Armed Forces of the United States to detain covered persons...Detention under the law of war without trial". The amendment is ...

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