FEDERAL JUDGE BANS OBAMA FROM DETAINING CITIZENS INDEFINITELY

Sorry, Mr. President. A US Federal judge has clarified a decision made last month with some news sure to upset the Obama administration: the White House cannot use the NDAA to indefinitely detain American citizens.
Judge Katherine B. Forrest has answered a request made by US President Barack Obama last month to more carefully explain a May 16 ruling made in a Southern District of New York courtroom regarding the National Defense Authorization Act. Clarifying the meaning behind her injunction, Judge Forrest confirms in an eight-page memorandum opinion this week that the NDAA’s controversial provision that permits indefinite detention cannot be used on any of America's own citizens.
Last month Judge Forrest ruled in favor of a group of journalists and activists whom filed a suit challenging the constitutionality of Section 1021 of the NDAA, a defense spending bill signed into law by President Obama on New Year’s Eve. Specifically, Judge Forrest said in her injunction that the legislation contained elements that had a "chilling impact on First Amendment rights” and ruled that no, the government cannot imprison Americans over suspected ties with terrorists.
"In the face of what could be indeterminate military detention, due process requires more,” said the judge.
The Obama administration responded nine days later by asking Judge Forrest to reconsider her ruling, adding that, in the interim, the government would interpret the injunction to mean that only the few plaintiffs listed on the lawsuit would be excluded from indefinite detention. One of those named, journalist Chris Hedges, had previously said, “I have had dinner more times than I can count with people whom this country brands as terrorists … but that does not make me one.”
Responding to the White House’s demands, Judge Forrest writes in a June 6 memo, “Put more bluntly, the May 16 order enjoined enforcement of Section 1021(b)(2) against anyone until further action by this, or a higher, court — or by Congress. This order should eliminate any doubt as to the May 16 order’s scope.”
Judge Forrest does include in her ruling, however, that Americans can be indefinitely detained, but only providing that the government can link suspects directly to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Attorney Carl Meyer represented the plaintiffs in the lawsuit and told RT last month that he expected the Obama administration to challenge Judge Forrest’s ruling, but warned that “it may not be in their best interest because there are so many people from all sides of the political spectrum opposed to this law.”
Previously, state lawmakers in both Utah and Virginia have proposed legislation that would negate provisions of the NDAA on a local level.

WAS SEAL TEAM 6 ASSASSINATED BY OUR GOVERNMENT?

Who killed Bin Laden?  Here's a Marine's answer.
   
America is not at war, the US  Marines are at war; America is at the  mall."


Let's be clear on this: OBAMA did NOT kill Bin  Laden. An American sailor, who Obama, just a few weeks before, was  debating on whether or not to PAY, did! In fact, if you remember a  little less than two years ago, his administration actually  charged and attempted to court-martial three Navy Seals from Seal  Team Six, when a terrorist suspect they captured, complained they  had punched him during the take-down and bloodied his nose.  Obama's administration further commented how brutal they were. The  left were calling them Nazi's and Baby Killers. Now all of a  sudden, the very brave men they vilified are now heroes when they  make his administration look good in the eyes of the public. Obama  just happened to be the one in office when the CIA finally found  the And our sailors took him out. Essentially, Obama  only gave an answer, Yes or No, to him being taken out. This is  NOT an Obama victory, but an AMERICAN victory!!


Ed  Schreiber
Col. US MC  (Ret.)
"Semper Fi"


OBAMA'S  OWN WORDS TRAP HIM:


2008: "Navy Seal Team 6 is Cheney's  private assassination team."
2011: "I put together Seal Team 6  to take out Bin Laden."


2008: "Bin Laden is innocent until  proven guilty, and must be captured alive and given a  fair trial."
2011: "I authorized Seal Team 6 to kill Bin  Laden."


2008: " Guantanamo    is entirely  unnecessary, and the detainees should not be  interrogated."
2011: "Vital intelligence was obtained  from  Guantanamo detainees that led to our locating Bin  Laden."


I HOPE THIS GETS SENT AROUND TO  PEOPLE  WHO CARE ABOUT THE TRUTH!


Sixteen members of Seal Team 6 -- the same who went in and eliminated Bin Laden were all killed in a Chinook Helicopter crash a month after Bin Laden was eliminated. Who authorized putting that many members of an elite Seal team all on one antique helicopter and flying iit through enemy territory without air support???? Why did they not use several heavily armed smaller helicopters???


That's totally insane thing to do considering how much money and training we have invested in those men--not to mention the sacrifice and loss of valuable human beings. How can this be a coincidence when the crash involved Seal Team 6 after killing bin Laden??? It looks like they loaded them all on one chopper, tipped off the enemy and flew them through a narrow canyon without air support. It was on the news briefly and then all was kept quiet.