Obama pressures Congress
to curb detention measure
according to an Associated Press report appearing in Politico.

The legislation also would deny suspected terrorists, even U.S. citizens seized within the nation's borders, the right to trial and subject them to indefinite detention. The Obama administration opposes that feature, along with other items slipped into the National Defense Authorization bill at the last moment.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70196.html#ixzz1g4k3AGzO

Bloomberg News editors are urging that the detention measure be vetoed, but not out of concern over basic American freedom, but rather out of protectiveness of the FBI's interests versus the Pentagon's and because the editors say the measure makes it harder to move captives out of Guantanamo Bay prison, which the editors wish to see closed down.

The editors say they are unmoved by concerns about infringement of liberty as spelled out in the Bill of Rights.

The Politico story vanished from a top position in the Google News search engine as this writer worked and almost escaped his notice as a result.

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