Glenn Greenwald · @ggreenwald
15th Dec 2011 from Twitlonger
Obama apologists on the detention bill will completely ignore what the ACLU & HRW have said about the President - literally pretend it doesn't exist -- like they always ignore condemantions of Obama by the leading human rights and civil liberties groups:
http://is.gd/GpHTc8
http://is.gd/5L2Pxg
http://is.gd/UuGEe0
http://is.gd/wu4udW
They are afraid to attack those groups because it reveals what they really are. So they'll pretend criticism of the detention bill comes only from 1 or 2 individuals of the "professional left" -- not the ACLU and HRW -- and then insist that anyone else who objects to the bill is just brainwashed by those 1 or 2 individuals.
Because, really, what rational person could possibly object to the first law codifying indefinite detention since the McCarthy era . . . now that President Obama has signed onto it?