Analysis

Controversial Defense Authorization Provisions Explained

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 16, 2011. With yesterday’s Senate passage of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, the Center for American Progress released “Terrorist Detainee Rules Are Not McCarthyist: Defense Authorization Act Does Not Establish Military Detention in the U.S.,” CAP Action’s “Defense Bill Puts New Conditions on How U.S. Delivers Aid to Pakistan,” and “Congress’s Sanction Push Could Threaten Obama’s International Coalition on Iran,” to address the substance and practical effect of these three most controversial provisions.

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