Tornado Alley (PROG)

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F6 .. Congress endorsing military detention, a new AUMF

By Glenn Greenwald .. excerpt ..

Third, I haven’t written about this bill until now for one reason: as odious and definitively radical as the powers are which this bill endorses, it doesn’t actually change the status quo all that much. That’s because the Bush and Obama administrations have already successfully claimed most of the powers in the bill, and courts have largely acquiesced. To be sure, there are dangers to having Congress formally codify these powers. But a powerful sign of how degraded our political culture has become is that this bill — which in any other time would be shockingly extremist — actually fits right in with who we are as a nation and what our political institutions are already doing. To be perfectly honest, I just couldn’t get myself worked up over a bill that, with some exceptions, does little more than formally recognize and codify what our Government is already doing.

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To see why that’s true, it is worth briefly examining each of the three provisions that are the most significant. These are complex issues that cannot be meaningfully analyzed in a 400-word post. But they are important enough to take the time to understand:

Military detention of accused Terrorists [...] Expanded AUMF [...] Restrictions on GITMO transfers [...] ..

http://www.salon.com/writer/glenn_greenwald/

Coming from, many i think justifiably see, one who has been overly 'heavy' on Obama seems to me, Greenwald's,
view on this one is to be noted by those who may be inclined to be ALARMED about it .. that's the reason i'm posting it ..

it's VERY long .. haven't read nearly all of it .. maybe a revisit (for search) sometime ..