26.01.2012

NDAA-Gesetz: Pulitzer-Preisträger klagt gegen Präsident Obama

[BüSo] Der US-Journalist und Pulitzer-Preisgewinner Christopher Hedges geht jetzt juristisch gegen das NDAA-Gesetz vor. In einem Interview mit Amy Goodman auf Democracy now erklärte er, warum er Präsident Obama angeklagt hat.
"Weil [dieses Gesetz] ganz klar gegen die Verfassung verstößt. Das ist mal das erste. Aber zweitens stellt es einen großen und ungeheuerlichen Angriff auf unsere Demokratie dar. Es wischt 200 Jahre Rechtsprechung beiseite, aufgrund der das Militär mit internen Polizeiaufgaben nichts zu tun hat."
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www.democracynow.org - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has filed suit against President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes controversial provisions authorizing the military to jail anyone it considers a terrorism suspect anywhere in the world, without charge or trial. Sections of the bill are written so broadly that critics say they could encompass journalists who report on terror-related issues, such as Hedges, for supporting enemy forces. "It is clearly unconstitutional," Hedges says of the bill. "It is a huge and egregious assault against our democracy. It overturns over 200 years of law, which has kept the military out of domestic policing." We speak with Hedges, now a senior fellow at the Nation Institute, and former New York Times foreign correspondent who was part of a team of reporters that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. We are also joined by Hedges' attorney Carl Mayer, who filed the litigation on his behalf in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

[Wikipedia] National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012
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