Articles By: Michael Pelle

Obama signs bill authorizing indefinite detention of American citizens3
/ February 3, 2012 1:08 pm

Obama signs bill authorizing indefinite detention of American citizens

On December 31, 2011,  President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law, providing $662 billion to keep the army funded through 2012 while enabling the military to indefinitely detain terror suspects, including American citizens. According to Fox News, the latter provision has garnered harsh criticism from human rights groups that ardently supported Obama in 2008, such as [...]

Congressional ‘Super Committee’ Fails to Reach Deficit Reduction Deal2
/ January 3, 2012 12:56 pm

Congressional ‘Super Committee’ Fails to Reach Deficit Reduction Deal

  Congress formed the Super Committee in the eleventh-hour of deficit reduction talks last summer, in the hopes that the twelve-member panel would come to the agreement that congressional leaders had failed to reach. The committee, comprised of six Democrats and six Republicans, unsurprisingly failed to agree upon how to eliminate $1.2 trillion in the deficit by its Thanksgiving deadline. [...]