As Congress passed the $662 billion defense authorization bill last week, critics worried that the bill authorized indefinite military detention for terror suspects, including American citizens, captured inside the United States. However, the bill does not change existing law on the subject, and CAP’s Ken Gude believes, “It does not limit or expand existing detention authority.”
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"say explicitly that no new authority is created to detain U.S. citizens, and that the military detention language does not apply to citizens.”
If the bill specifically says this, then whats all the hoopla about?
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