"Guantánamo North" – NDAA Indefinite Detention Coming Soon to a Town Near You? | American Civil Liberties Union
Is the Senate seriously paving the way for Guantánamo-style #indefinitedetention to be brought to the United States? #CloseGitmo
Top senators thought you wouldn't notice. Behind closed doors, they
wrote up new indefinite detention and Guantánamo provisions in the
annual defense policy bill, and then waited 11 days to quietly file the
bill.
But we now have the bill,
and everyone can read it. And everyone should understand what is in
this new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) before the full
Senate makes a big mistake and paves the way for Guantánamo-style
indefinite detention being brought to the United States itself.
The new Senate NDAA:
Brings Indefinite Detention to the U.S. Itself: The
bill now says that detainees may be brought to the United States for
"detention pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force"
(AUMF). In plain English, that means the policy of indefinite detention
by the military, without charge or trial, could be carried out here at
home. Right now, the number of people in the U.S. in military indefinite
detention is zero. If the bill is enacted, that number could
immediately jump to 100 or more.
