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The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012 [1] [2] (Pub. L. 112–81 (text)) is a United States federal law which, among other things, specified the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense. The bill passed the U.S. House on December 14, 2011 and passed the U.S. Senate on December 15, 2011.
Indefinite detention is the incarceration of an arrested person by a national government or law enforcement agency for an indefinite amount of time without a trial.The Human Rights Watch considers this practice as violating national and international laws, particularly human rights laws, although it remains in legislation in various liberal democracies.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 Made appropriations related to Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, and defense-wide activities with a number of nonbudgetary provisions, and extended the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs through 2017.
The House passed a defense policy bill that included a provision to ban certain medical care for transgender children of military service members.
The National Defense Authorization Act passed 217-199, mostly along party lines, with just six Democrats voting for it and three conservatives breaking with the GOP to oppose it.
The U.S. government refers to these captured enemy combatants as "detainees" because they did not qualify as prisoners of war under the definition found in the Geneva Conventions. Under the Obama administration the term enemy combatants was also removed from the lexicon and further defined under the 2010 Defense Omnibus Bill: Section 948b.
The National Defense Authorization Act, a must-pass $895 billion bill, sets Pentagon and defense policies for the next year. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., pushed to add the new provision regarding ...
Proposition 66, a ballot measure passed by California voters in 2016, allows prison officials to transfer condemned incarcerated people to any state prison that provides the necessary level of security. The State of California took full control of capital punishment in 1891. Originally, executions took place at San Quentin and at Folsom State ...