March 28, 2024

Ted Cruz: Indefinite Detention Retained in NDAA 2014

Eighty-five of 100 U.S. senators voted to renew the president’s power to indefinitely detain Americans, denying them of their fundamental right to due process. On December 19, by a vote of 84-15 (Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida, did not vote), the Senate sent the Fiscal Year 2014 version of the National Defense Authorization Act […]

Bigger Badder NDAA 2014 Quietly Passed the House and Senate On the Way to Obamas Desk

  While everyone is distracted with the holiday festivities, Congress has been hard at work, screwing us over in the name of national security. It authorizes massive spending, including $527 billion in base defense spending for the current fiscal year, funding for the war in Afghanistan, and funding for nuclear weapons programs. The indefinite detention […]

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