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The US Army Now Offers A Prison Guard Specialty Securing 'Civilian Detainees'

Robert Johnson |Dec. 7, 2011, 7:19 PM



Every soldier that enlists in the Army chooses a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS). Designated by a number and a letter, the 31E MOS now includes advanced responsibilities including command and control of prisoner of war and civilian internee camps.

While the civilian designation likely applies to foreign nationals in their home countries, it reads more ominously now that the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is getting nods from legislators as it makes its way through the Senate.

Part of the NDAA includes amendments allowing for the arrest and indefinite detention of U.S. citizens both at home and abroad.

Below is a portion of the MOS listing at GoArmy.com

ADVANCED RESPONSIBILITIES

Advanced level Internment/Resettlement Specialist provides guidance, supervises and trains other Soldiers within the same discipline. As an advanced level I/R Specialist, you may be involved in:

Supervise and establish all administrative, logistical and food support operations, confinement/correctional, custodial, treatment, and rehabilitative activities

Responsible for all personnel working in the confinement/correctional facility, including security, logistical, and administrative management of the prisoner/internee population

Provide command and control, staff planning, administration/logistical services, and custody/control for the operation of an Enemy Prisoner of War/Civilian Internee (EPW/CI) camp

Provide command and control, staff planning, administration/logistical services, and custody/control for the operation of detention facility or the operation of a displaced civilian (DC) resettlement facility


http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-a ... es-2011-12

U.S. Says Americans Are MILITARY Targets in the War on Terror … And Says that Only the White House – and Not the Courts – Gets to Decide Who Is a Legitimate Target

Posted on December 2, 2011 by WashingtonsBlog
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American Citizens on U.S. Soil May be Indefinitely Detained, Sent to Guantanamo or Assassinated

As everyone realizes by now, Congress’ push for indefinite detention includes American citizens on American soil. As Huffington post notes: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/0 ... 23929.html

The debate also has left many Americans scratching their heads as to whether Congress is actually attempting to authorize the indefinite detention of Americans by the military without charges. But proponents — led by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee — say that is exactly what the war on terror requires. They argued that the bill simply codifies precedents set by the Supreme Court and removes uncertainty, which they said would better protect the country.

Here is John McCain justifying sending Americans to Guantanamo:

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... UHh1iqe43w

And see this. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/ ... itely.html

(As Emptywheel and Glenn Greenwald note, the White House has believed for many years that it possessed the power to indefinitely detain Americans. See this, http://www.salon.com/2011/12/01/congres ... singleton/ this, http://www.emptywheel.net/2011/11/18/co ... -citizens/ this, http://www.emptywheel.net/2011/11/30/ef ... more-23340 and this.) http://www.emptywheel.net/2011/11/19/be ... on-gossip/

But that’s not all.

The government can also kill American citizens. For more than a year and a half, the Obama administration has said it could target American citizens for assassination without any trial or due process. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/ ... -bush.html

But now, as shown by the debates surrounding indefinite detention, the government is saying that America itself is a battlefield. http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-secur ... fine-being

AP notes today: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-lawyers-cit ... 13473.html

U.S. citizens are legitimate military targets when they take up arms with al-Qaida, top national security lawyers in the Obama administration said Thursday.

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The government lawyers, CIA counsel Stephen Preston and Pentagon counsel Jeh Johnson … said U.S. citizens do not have immunity when they are at war with the United States.

Johnson said only the executive branch, not the courts, is equipped to make military battlefield targeting decisions about who qualifies as an enemy.

The courts in habeas cases, such as those involving whether a detainee should be released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, make the determination of who can be considered an enemy combatant.

You might assume – in a vacuum – that this might be okay (even though it trashes the Constitution, the separation of military and police actions, and the division between internal and external affairs).

But it is dangerous in a climate where you can be labeled as or suspected of being a terrorist simply for questioning war, protesting anything, asking questions about pollution or about Wall Street shenanigans, supporting Ron Paul, being a libertarian, holding gold, http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/ ... orism.html or stocking up on more than 7 days of food. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXKfEsgL ... re=related And see this. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/09/ ... ssent.html

And it is problematic in a period in which FBI agents and CIA intelligence officials, constitutional law expert professor Jonathan Turley, Time Magazine, Keith Olbermann and the Washington Post http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/ ... t-was.html have all said that U.S. government officials “were trying to create an atmosphere of fear in which the American people would give them more powerâ€