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On Monday, the Senate will grapple with Congress� latest bipartisan foolishness, the�<a href="http://armed-services.senate.gov/press/SASC%20NDAA%20Markup%2002%2011-15-11.pdf" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">National Defense Authorization Act</a>. Ironically opposed by both the White House and the Pentagon, it would expand preventive and arbitrary detention beyond Guant�namo Bay and the CIA�s shuttered black sites, importing it into the domestic United States.</p>
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The Senate Armed Services Committee, led by Senators Carl Levin (D-Michigan) and John McCain (R-Arizona), approved the bill despite its provisions for military detention of any suspect (even those apprehended within the United States) accused (not proven) of involvement in any terror-related offense. Presumably, military detention would include those accused of offenses as innocuous as "lying to a federal agent," unrelated to actual terrorism yet classified as terror-related.</p>