Different rules: Military and civilian courts give detainees different rights, and the new bill will allow the military rules to continue without civilian trials
Obama To Send U.S. Citizens To Guantanamo? Outrage As President Signs Off Law To Detain Terror Suspects Indefinitely -- Daily Mail
President Barack Obama faces a massive civil liberties backlash after he signed a law that will allow terror suspects to be held indefinitely- even raising the prospects of U.S. citizens being sent to Guantanamo Bay.
By allowing Americans arrested on U.S. soil to be sent to Guantanamo, the laws of the battlefield are essentially extended to include the country's own citizens as within its reach.
The move shows a clear hardening of Mr Obama’s policies, and a major shift from the man who ran for president three years ago.
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More News On The U.S. Military Now Having The Power To Detain Terrorists Indefinitely
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Obama abandons veto on security bill that will give U.S. military powers to arrest Americans and hold them without trial -- Daily Mail
White House Approves Of Bill Allowing The Military To Imprison Americans Without Trial -- Buisness Insider
Obama to sign indefinite detention bill into law -- Salon
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