On December 31, 2011, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), codifying indefinite military detention without charge or trial into law for the first time in American history. The NDAA’s dangerous detention provisions would authorize the president — and all future presidents — to order the military to pick up and indefinitely imprison people captured anywhere in the world, far from any battlefield.
NOTE: This excerpt taken from the webpage of the American Civil Liberties Union on NDAA at:
http://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/ndaa