The Hit Farm

by Steve Vladeck By Marty Lederman and Steve Vladeck* Editorial pages and blogs have been overrun in the past couple of weeks with analyses and speculation about the detainee provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act, which the President has Barack Obama's signing statement that was added to the passage of the NDAA bill in [...]

The Best in Uncensored News Information and Analysis. The act, abbreviated as NDAA FY2012, managed to make its way through Congress with overwhelming support in recent days, despite legislation that allows for Americans to be detained indefinitely and tortured by authorities for the mere suspicion of The act, abbreviated as NDAA FY2012, managed to make [...]

The House has passed the conference version of the NDAA. It will go on to the Senate, probably coming up tomorrow (Thursday). With the White House veto threat lifted, the NDAA likely will be law in very short order. After that Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday morning, FBI Director Robert Mueller III said [...]