Thank Goodness for Drudge -- This Would Never Have Seen The Light of Day -- Nothing To Do With the Bakken Unless You're A Terrorist Visiting an Oil Well

Update

November 29, 2011: the Senate passes the bill 61-37; the House passed bill with similar language; headed to President who says he will veto it. It takes 67 votes to overturn a veto; Congress cannot overturn a pocket veto. More political theater.

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Carl Levin's bill would repeal the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 by authorizing the U.S. military to perform law enforcement functions on American soil.

The Senate is set to vote on a bill today that would define the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial.

“The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself...

The bill was drafted in secret by Senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), before being passed in a closed-door committee meeting without any kind of hearing.  

About time. No water boarding, though.

This bill ain't gonna pass. It makes too much sense.