Chris Hedges is suing Barak Obama

[Sam Lord]

Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force as embedded in the latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act, signed by the president Dec. 31.



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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_im_suing_barack_obama_20120116/

[C. Flower]

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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_im_suing_barack_obama_20120116/

It's about time someone challenged the US's illegal wars.

Ron Paul has talked about it a lot but done nothing. Well done to Mr Hedges.

[PaddyJoe]

The really big deal with the NDAA is the new powers that it gives to the military in the US itself.

The act authorizes the military in Title X, Subtitle D, entitled “Counter-Terrorism,” for the first time in more than 200 years, to carry out domestic policing. With this bill, which will take effect March 3, the military can indefinitely detain without trial any U.S. citizen deemed to be a terrorist or an accessory to terrorism. And suspects can be shipped by the military to our offshore penal colony in Guantanamo Bay and kept there until “the end of hostilities.” It is a catastrophic blow to civil liberties.