the WORLDWIDE implications of the National Defense Authorization Act

"President Obama... will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law," said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director."The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield. The ACLU will fight worldwide detention authority wherever we can, be it in court, in Congress, or internationally."

Obama signs the NDAA