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On January 16, 2012, Hedges wrote "Why I'm Suing Barack Obama," saying:
He and others challenged AUMF's legality "as embedded in the (2012 NDAA) signed by (Obama) on Dec. 31." He picked New Year's eve. Perhaps he thought no one would notice.
It created a firestorm but not in the media. They reported virtually nothing on enacted tyranny.
Hedges said NDAA "authorizes the military in Title X, Subtitle D, entitled 'Counter-Terrorism,' for the first time in more than 200 years, to carry out domestic policing.""With this bill, which will take effect March 3, the military can indefinitely detain without trial any U.S. citizen deemed to be a terrorist or an accessory to terrorism."
"And suspects can be shipped by the military to our offshore penal colony in Guantanamo Bay and kept there until 'the end of hostilities.' It is a catastrophic blow to civil liberties."
As a journalist, he spent many years abroad. He "met regularly with leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza."
He also met Arafat and other PLO leaders when they were called terrorists. He "spent time with the Revolutionary Guard in Iran and was in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey with fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party."
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