Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | December 2, 2011
IN THIS ISSUE
- America’s dissolving due process
- Attacking Pakistan
- Israel, rogue state
- Re-occupying Iraq
- Training killers not to kill
- Assorted news from the empire
- What’s new at the blog?
- Columns
- Antiwar Radio
- Events
Making Enemies Out of American Citizens
The Democrat-controlled Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed an enormous $662 billion defense bill, including a provision that would give the military the responsibility to indefinitely detain suspected terrorists, even if they are American citizens caught on U.S. soil. The bill passed 93-7 despite two proposed amendments to roll back the detention provision and a vow from President Obama to veto the bill on account of the provision.
Meanwhile, top lawyers in the Obama administration said on Thursday that the U.S. may target and kill U.S. citizens with no due process if the president declares them terrorists. This declaration is the president’s alone to make, the lawyers argued, and is subject to no oversight.
U.S. Attack on Pakistan
After the Pentagon spent days trying to come up with an explanation why its warplanes attacked Pakistani military bases, killing 24 Pakistani soldiers, Pakistan responded by cutting off NATO supply routes to their troops in the war in Afghanistan. As anger grew this week in Pakistan over the U.S. strike, Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar warned that a simply apology would not be enough, and some speculated that Pakistan might bar the U.S. from its airspace.
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