• published: 11 Jan 2012
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MUSIC BY: NEIL DIMOND CREDITS: MANY FB VIDEOS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ALEX JONES, RON PAUL, ACLU,.... WASHINGTON -- President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law on December 31, 2011. The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision. While President Obama issued a signing statement saying he had "serious reservations" about the provisions, the statement only applies to how his administration would use the authorities granted by the NDAA, and would not affect how the law is interpreted by subsequent administrations. The White House had threatened to veto an earlier version of the NDAA, but reversed course shortly before Congress voted on the final bill. "President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law," said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director. "The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield. The ACLU will fight worldwide detention authority wherever we can, be it in court, in Congress, or internationally." Under the Bush administration, similar claims of worldwide detention authority were used to hold even a U.S. citizen detained on U.S. soil in military custody, and many in Congress now assert that the NDAA should be used in the same way again. The ACLU believes that any military detention of American citizens or others within the United States is unconstitutional and illegal, including under the NDAA. In addition, the breadth of the NDAA's detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the laws of war. "We are incredibly disappointed that President Obama signed this new law even though his administration had already claimed overly broad detention authority in court," said Romero. "Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back the constitutional excesses of George Bush in the war on terror was extinguished today. Thankfully, we have three branches of government, and the final word belongs to the Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on the scope of detention authority. But Congress and the president also have a role to play in cleaning up the mess they have created because no American citizen or anyone else should live in fear of this or any future president misusing the NDAA's detention authority." The bill also contains provisions making it difficult to transfer suspects out of military detention, which prompted FBI Director Robert Mueller to testify that it could jeopardize criminal investigations. It also restricts the transfers of cleared detainees from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to foreign countries for resettlement or repatriation, making it more difficult to close Guantanamo, as President Obama pledged to do in one of his first acts in office. US Congress Passed and President Obama signed on January 1, 2012 the National Defense Authorization Act. The bill currently has dangerous provisions attached that would authorize the president to send the military literally anywhere in the world to detain civilians - even American citizens in the United States itself - without charge or trial. On this first Infowars Nightly News show of 2012, Alex talks about the imploding economy with Catherine Austin Fitts, the former managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., and Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration. Alex covers Obama's signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, a draconian bill that will allow the military to arrest American citizens and disappear them into a secret labyrinth tribunal system where victims may be kept for years without access to due process and the protection of the Fourth Amendment. Also covered this evening is HR 3166, also known as the Enemy Expatriation Act that will strip United nationals of their citizenship if it is decided that they are engaged in hostilities against the government. Alex delves into the Iowa caucus and the attempt by the establishment to derail Ron Paul's campaign and the prospect of chicanery and dirty tricks during the event tomorrow. He also takes a look at Ron Paul's "Closing Argument" ad. Other topics include the expansion of the drone "kill chain" into the murky realm of contractors as the war on terror moves into new regions. Alex also talks about a disturbing video making the rounds that shows U.S. soldiers in Iraq blowing up a dog for kicks.