In December 2011, President Obama signed the 2012 NDAA, codifying indefinite military detention without charge or trial into law for the first time in American history. The NDAAs dangerous detention provisions would authorize the president — and all future presidents — to order the military to pick up and indefinitely imprison people captured anywhere in the world, far from any battlefield. The ACLU will fight worldwide detention authority wherever we can, be it in court, in Congress, or internationally.https://aclu.org/blog/tag/ndaa Worse, the NDAA authorizes the military to detain even US citizens under the broad new anti-terrorism provisions provided in the bill, once again without trial.forbes/sites/erikkain/2012/01/02/president-obama-signed-the-national-defense-authorization-act-now-what/ --16yr old American citizen on Obama kill list-murdered without trial-The missile killed him, his teenage cousin and at least five other civilians on Oct. 14, 2011, while the boys were eating dinner at an open-air restaurant in southern Yemen nytimes/2013/07/18/opinion/the-drone-that-killed-my-grandson.html -President Barack Obama has the authority to use an unmanned drone strike to kill US citizens on American soil, his attorney general has said. telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/9913615/Barack-Obama-has-authority-to-use-drone-strikes-to-kill-Americans-on-US-soil.html President Barack Obama has the legal authority to unleash deadly force—such as drone strikes—against Americans on U.S. soil without first putting them on trial, Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in a letter released Tuesday.news.uk.msn/world/barack-obama-drones-kill-americans-on-home-soil-516222/ U.S. law enforcement is greatly expanding its use of domestic drones for surveillance. Routine aerial surveillance would profoundly change the character of public life in America. https://aclu.org/blog/tag/domestic-drones washingtontimes/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/?page=all governing/gov-data/safety-justice/drones-state-local-law-enforcement-agencies-license-list.html The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases washingtonpost/world/national-security/obama-administration-had-restrictions-on-nsa-reversed-in-2011/2013/09/07/c26ef658-0fe5-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html NSAs Verizon Spying Order Specifically Targeted Americans forbes/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/05/nsas-verizon-spying-order-specifically-targeted-americans-not-foreigners/ i.imgur/pIwG8Ar.jpg
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