On the final day of 2011, President Barack Obama signed a Pentagon funding bill that he had earlier threatened to veto. For many progressives and human rights advocates, it was just another heartbreak in what has become a dysfunctional relationship that seems fit for some afternoon talk-show intervention.
The legislation codifies into law some of the most controversial practices that the Bush administration employed during the War on Terror—now more than a decade old—including the right to confine suspect terrorists to an alternative justice system run by the military.
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