A showdown looms in the House over whether to end the indefinite detention without trial of terrorist suspects, even U.S. citizens seized within the nation’s borders.
Democrats and tea party Republicans lobbied their colleagues furiously ahead of Friday’s vote, arguing that indefinite detention gives the executive branch extraordinary power that violates Americans’ constitutional rights. Opponents insisted that any change in the law would weaken national security and coddle terrorists.
The divisive issue was playing out as the House considered a $642 billion defense budget for next year. Final passage of the legislation was expected Friday afternoon.
The spending blueprint calls for money for aircraft, ships, weapons, the war in Afghanistan and a 1.7 percent pay raise for military personnel, billions of dollars more than President Barack Obama proposed. House Republicans abandoned last summer’s deficit-cutting plan that was worked out with Obama, embracing a budget that adds $8 billion for the military while slashing funds for some safety-net programs for the poor such as Medicaid and food stamps.
The White House has threatened to veto the bill, citing a long list of objections. The bill snubs the Pentagon’s budget that was based on a new military strategy that shifts the focus from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to future challenges in Asia, the Mideast and in cyberspace. The bill spares aircraft and ships slated for retirement, slows the reduction in the size of the Army and Marine Corps and calls for construction of a new missile defense site on the East Coast.
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Easy fix to NDAA, just add 4 words "Excludes United States Citizens", yet I know Obama would Veto that amendment because then during "Marshall Law" he wouldn't be able to detain people who object to his Dictatorship indefinitely.
obama wants indefinite detention of Americans to be held without trial. he wanted captured Gitmo terrorists to have civil trials on US soil. Therefore he thinks more highly of terrorists against the US than he does of American citizens. obama is as anti-American as any one could be. I hope obama and his entire anti American club will be prosecuted to the max for treason. God help us all if he wins re election.
I say drag this usurper out of office and detain him!
They should not be “indefinately detained”, rather, they should have been given the trials, found guilty of murder, and of terrorisim, and hanged as all murderers and terrorists should be. This is only “fair” treatment of such individuals. If one can call them individuals, as they “think” with one brain, which is to say, they have no individual thoughts of their own. Therefore, they are all as one, and as such, should be taken out of our misery, and sent to the place of their dreams, with “72 virgins, and rivers of honey”………..my thinking on this is that there are no virgins, only demons, and only rivers of fire and brimstone. Only what they rightly deserve.
Although you never write back I can't believe what great comments you make.They are outstanding and I agree with them.These terrorist sould have no rights except a nice strong rope.
Anyone that is a Muslim is following in the path of a False Prophet, Mohammed. For if the Holy Spirit were actually in Mohammed, as it was in Moses and Jesus, then he would have been able to do miraculous things. Moses' staff turned into a Snake and then back into a staff before the Pharaoh, Moses also parted the Red Sea as he led the Israeli's out of Egypt. Jesus Christ performed numerous Miracles with the power that the Holy Spirit gave to him such as curing the blind and sick, turning water into wine, and raising people (Lazarus especially) from the dead. Mohammed could do none of these things, and people failed to heed Jesus' words about False Prophets and now we have Millions possibly Billions of people following the teachings of a Charlatan, a Grifter, a "Snake Oil" Salesman, or in simpler terms a Con Man.
It will be the followers of this false prophet that will Inhabit the depths of hell, while those of us that follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and by extension GOD will have a place set for us in Heaven. While Mohammed may profess that a "Martyr" will receive "72 Virgins", Mohammed never mentioned if they were 72 Male Virgins or Female Virgins. For all we know, they get 72 of the "Martyr's" same sex, and for to fornicate with members of your own Sex is a sin and is Condemned by GOD and Jesus. Happy Martyrdom you false prophet following no brained Murderers (Oh, and you can also forget about getting into Heaven because you didn't follow GOD's commandment of "Thou Shalt not Kill")!!
The only ones who stick up for terrorists is Obummer and Holder,two secret muslim terrorists .