The Senate continues to move forward with a national defense budget that includes requiring the military (vs the police, the FBI, etc.) to take custody of anyone identified as being a member of al-Qaeda.
Which maybe sounds just fine (as one letter writer in the Denver Post put it, "we don't seem to have a problem with the military arresting civilians"), but this is a classic example of a slippery slope — first al-Qaeda, then any other terrorist group, then other "serious" crimes, then …
I rarely find myself on the same side as Rand Paul or Mark Kirk on anything, but they, along with most Senate Democrats, oppose this part of the Defense bill, and I do hope that Obama keeps his promise to veto it. #ddtb
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Senate keeps controversial provision in Defense bill requiring military to detain terrorist suspects; Obama has threatened to veto the bill Read more by Stephanie Condon on CBS News' Political Hotshee…