n.d.a. more on that coming up and it's been months since the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in west texas and now five other facilities storing the same chemical that caused the deadly blast have turned away the state fire marshal state fire marshal himself tells us more and tonight show. it's wednesday september fourth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax and you're watching our t.v. and we begin in stockholm sweden where today president obama was asked to again make the case for military strikes in syria describe the dynamic to be a nobel peace price winner and getting ready to attack syria i would refer you to the speech that i gave. when i received the nobel prize. and i think i started the speech by saying that compared to previous recipients i was certainly on worthy the question though that all of us face not just me. our citizens face not just political leaders is at what point do we say we need to confront actions that. are violating our common humanity meanwhile the president

essentially the federal government has empowered the military to section twenty one of the n.d.a. or national defense authorization act to see. categories covered person anyone who is substantially supports that's not a legal term. or it substantially supports a kind of the taliban or something called associated forces again another nebulous term hold in military facilities stripped of due process and keep them there indefinitely that was our reading of the law that was judge catherine forrest reading of the law in the southern district court of new york when she declared an unconstitutional when it went to the appellate court. and you should be clear that they don't rule on the law itself they ruled on the standing of the plaintiffs they said that we as plaintiffs didn't have credibility to bring the case to the court so they sort of ducked the issue of actually dealing with the section ten twenty one of the n.d.a. which i think by any reading is of agree just violation of our most basic constitutional rights to due process did the appellate court say that because no one had been

you know i think that helps move move us down to the end go a little closer to really be n.d.a. it's also full of loopholes and this most significantly loophole that i saw was an over reliance on corpus a.b.s. caresses a measure of last resort so it can be indefinitely detained and help for a long time before the government actually honors he vs corpus that could be ten fifteen twenty years so it's kind of meaning less and the issue with the n.c.a.a. is the suspension of due process all of our rights not just against forcing corpus . it's going to end at well let's move on to the other avenue that you guys are sort of working here and that is asking the supreme court to hear your case what are you hoping to hear from the high court in response. well first of all that they take the case they don't have to you know it's a little bit worrisome because as we've seen the judiciary even all the way up to the supreme court has tended to defer to the executive on it while we're in this endless war on terror so they don't have to take a case they could say that this is all settled this i

detention in the meantime the highest court in the nation is considering hearing a lawsuit challenging the n.d.a. a complete update coming up. and it's been months since the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in west texas and now five other facilities storing the same chemical that caused the deadly blast have turned away the state fire marshal state fire marshal himself joins us later in the show.

detention meantime the highest court in the nation is considering fearing a lawsuit challenging the n.d.a. egg. complete update coming up. ok well then college students have one new york city university are saying no way to military recruiters and former high ranking military officers on their campus and more about events cuny in today's show.

detention in the meantime the highest court in the nation is considering hearing a lawsuit challenging the n.d.a. more on that coming up and it's been months since the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in west texas and now five other facilities storing the same chemical that caused the deadly blast have turned away the state fire marshal state fire marshal himself tells us more and tonight show.