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I've heard some talk that the NDAA allows overriding habeus corpus, but I'm not a lawyer so I don't know if it's entirely true. Source: https://m.huffpost.com/

• hirundo 6y ago
  If it's legal then there's even less prospect of accountability, so it's worse.
• thephyber 6y ago
  The John Yoo interpretations of existing law during the early Bush 43 administration already did that. NDAA and subsequent updates weren't required, but I wouldn't doubt if they solidified some of the weaknesses of just having White House / NSC council interpretations. Also, in practice, law is very subjective and frequently doesn't supply any prior constraint against government actors, only recourse after-the-fact.