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Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.
Human rights groups accused the president of deserting his principles and disregarding the long-established principle that the military is not used in domestic policing. The legislation has also been strongly criticised by libertarians on the right angered at the stripping of individual rights for the duration of "a war that appears to have no end".
Human rights groups accused the president of deserting his principles and disregarding the long-established principle that the military is not used in domestic policing. The legislation has also been strongly criticised by libertarians on the right angered at the stripping of individual rights for the duration of "a war that appears to have no end".
If I thought he would actually be using this to defend the US against radical muslims I might be encouraged. As it stands he's far more likely to us it to scare GOP supporters whose e-mail addresses he recently acquired.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/15/americans-face-guantanamo-detention-obama
