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Tucked inside the National Defense Authorization Act, being marked up by the House Armed Services Committee this week, is a hugely important provision that hasnt been getting a lot of attention a brand new authorization for a worldwide war.
This stealth provision was added to the bill by the committees chairman, Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), but has a bit of a history.
It was first proposed by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey in 2008 after the Bush administration lost the Boumediene v. Bush case, in which the Supreme Court decided that federal courts would subject the administrations asserted law of war basis to hold Guantanamo detainees to searching review.
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