Dennis Myers, Commentary

A few weeks ago I sat in a restaurant with U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei to get his thinking on a number of current issues facing Congress. One of the questions I asked dealt with the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (NDAA).

Before its approval by Congress, there were several months of citizen activism that targeted the anti-terrorism section of NDAA, which many people read as applying to U.S. citizens and other legal residents of the United States. They were specifically concerned with the indefinite detention provisions of the measure.

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