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Obama's lawlessness also embraces Military Commissions justice. It includes sweeping unconstitutional powers to detain, interrogate, and prosecute alleged suspects and collaborators (including US citizens), hold them (without evidence) indefinitely in military prisons, and deny them habeas and other constitutional protections.
The Military Commissions Act also authorized torture to extract confessions and other extralegal police state powers, including denying speedy trials or any at all.
In May 2009, Obama also authorized preventive detentions of anyone "who cannot be prosecuted yet who pose a clear danger to the American people," even with no evidence proving it.
Whether short, long-term or indefinite, preventive detentions violate core legal principles, including the Constitution's Fifth Amendment, stating:
"No person....shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...."
Indefinite detentions, military tribunals, targeted assassinations, and other extralegal policies are indefensible in democratic civil societies.
Under Obama, however, they're official policy.
As a result, out-of-control executive power threatens everyone, especially when cheerled by media scoundrels.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at Email address removed.
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