able to tell and i kind of think this is a big deal but i'm not the only one earlier i spoke to jason leopold the deputy managing editor for truthout dot org and asked for his opinion i asked him what some of the biggest things that are being ignored right now regarding this here's his take. well the biggest thing that's being ignored is exactly how this bill would apply to u.s. citizens now we've heard from various members of congress carl levin who is the chair of the senate armed services committee who worked on this bill with senator john mccain we've received assurances from various lawmakers that u.s. citizens would not be. affected by this that it would not apply to this however immediately after the bill was passed senator dianne feinstein introduced the legislation referred to it the due process act of two thousand and eleven and what that would do is ensure that this particular bill more or less would not apply to u.s. citizens basically that indefinite detention of u.s. citizens would not happen unless there was an express act of congress and that's what her or her legislation says

and for more on this earlier i spoke to jason leopold he's the deputy managing editor of truthout dot org and with an average of eighteen veterans committing suicide each day according to the veterans administration i asked him why we are seeing skyrocketing suicide rates among soldiers here's his take. well first of all that's actually a statistic that has been out there for quite some time it's been somewhat under the radar you know part of the problem here is that soldiers first of all. they the experience that they're having in iraq in afghanistan is traumatic obviously these are multiple deployments multiple deployments. returning to an environment in which they have difficulty adjusting in addition to that there is a stigma that is associated with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury and that stigma has has somewhat halted veterans from seeking the help that they that they need. you know one issue that i have tried to bring up in some of the reporting that i've done is that in the past nine years almost nearly nine years since this war in iraq has been going

window as you may be able to tell i think this is kind of a big deal but i'm not the only one jason leopold is the deputy managing editor of truth out dot org he is in our los angeles studio jason i know you wrote an article titled obama's twisted version of american exceptionalism dealing detailing some of the ironies here you're pretty outraged but a lot of americans are not so shocked about this don't really realize what's going on what do you think are some of the biggest things that are being ignored right now. well the biggest thing that's being ignored is exactly how this bill would apply to u.s. citizens now we've heard from various members of congress carl levin who is the chair of the senate armed services committee who worked on this bill with senator john mccain we've received assurances from various lawmakers that u.s. citizens would not be. affected by this that it would not apply to this however immediately after the bill was passed senator dianne feinstein introduced the legislation referred to it the due process act of two thousand and eleven and what that would do is ensur