New Bipartisan Bill Could Give Any President the Power to Imprison U.S. Citizens in Military Detention Forever

Summary: One of themost outrageous acts of Barack Obama’s presidency was his failureto veto the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012. Thefiscal year 2012 NDAA included provisionsthat appeared to bothcodify and expand a power the executive branch had previously claimed to possess —namely, the power to hold individuals, including U.S.