Tech | March 07, 2010 | 3 comments

A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully

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"Why is the national security community treating the "Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010," introduced by Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday as a standard proposal, as a simple response to the administration's choices in the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing attempt? A close reading of the bill suggests it would allow the U.S. military to detain U.S. citizens without trial indefinitely in the U.S. based on suspected activity. Read the bill here, and then read the summarized points after the jump.

According to the summary, the bill sets out a comprehensive policy for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected enemy belligerents who are believed to have engaged in hostilities against the United States by requiring these individuals to be held in military custody, interrogated for their intelligence value and not provided with a Miranda warning.

(There is no distinction between U.S. persons--visa holders or citizens--and non-U.S. persons.)

It would require these "belligerents" to be coded as "high-value detainee[s]" to be held in military custody and interrogated for their intelligence value by a High-Value Detainee Interrogation Team established by the president. (The H.I.G., of course, was established to bring a sophisticated interrogation capacity to the federal justice system.)

Any suspected unprivileged enemy belligerents considered a "high-value detainee" shall not be provided with a Miranda warning.

The bill asks the President to determine criteria for designating an individual as a "high-value detainee" if he/she: (1) poses a threat of an attack on civilians or civilian facilities within the U.S. or U.S. facilities abroad; (2) poses a threat to U.S. military personnel or U.S. military facilities; (3) potential intelligence value; (4) is a member of al Qaeda or a terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda or (5) such other matters as the President considers appropriate. The President must submit the regulations and guidance to the appropriate committees of Congress no later than 60 days after enactment.

To the extent possible, the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Team must make a preliminary determination whether the detainee is an unprivileged enemy belligerent within 48 hours of taking detainee into custody.

The High-Value Detainee Interrogation Team must submit its determination to the Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General after consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General make a final determination and report the determination to the President and the appropriate committees of Congress. In the case of any disagreement between the Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General, the President will make the determination.

Note that the president himself doesn't get to make the call."

Who do you think actually wrote this bill, McCain and Lieberman?

Or was it the military-industrial complex, NWO puppet masters, who write the script for the left, right and mainstream media they control: television, papers, Hollywood and soon to be internet?

That happens after they stage the cyber-9/11 as a pretext to implement Internet2, a censored, Big Brother controlled online grid. Also, in a kill 2 birds with 1 stone fashion, it will also be used to ramp up a new Cold War with China or renew an old one with Russia, maybe even get us to war with Iran. It depends on how they spin it.

Meanwhile, the tyrannical, scientific police state is being implemented thanks to 9/11 and the Patriot Act. The propaganda machine is hard at work morphing foreign terror radicals into everyday American patriots.

The left and right pundits both spew the same talking points about "truthers" and "birthers," validated with the new roll out of domestic patsy attacks and now we have the "American Taliban" guy who was "caught" by Pakistan, when we all know he's a CIA Avatar operative working on the inside.
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3 comments // A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully

  • toyotabedzrock
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • I don't agree with the conspiracy theory stuff but, this bill is vastly concerning.

      Look at number 3 and number 5, "3) potential intelligence value; (5) such other matters as the President considers appropriate."

      That could not BE more vague! It's like the Sedition act that Woodrow Wilson passed.

      We'll see what happens, but I doubt this will make it through.

    • 1 year ago
  • galwayman
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      galwayman  
    • Saladin:

      President Obama reauthorized the patriot Act with NO debate,so if you think this lastest outrage won't pass you best think again1 the new world order police state run by the puppets of the corporate elite will pass this because they have been ordered too by their masters! corporatism hates any sign of freedom it is a threat to their need for more power and more profit.it's vague so to allow them to lock up anyone the government decides they don't like! you thought your father and grandfather fought the nazi's and won didn't you? that concentration camps could never happen again? you're wrong on both counts! Google FEMA camps! look at the evidence!

    • 1 year ago
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