Analyst's note:  Absolutely must read.  We ask our readers to understand that we really didn't make up our previous reports and concerns about the possibility of detention by our own military as a result of the recent National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).  I recommend an internal site search on the term "NDAA".

[....] U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan yesterday ruled in favor of a group of writers and activists who sued President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the Defense Department, claiming a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, signed into law Dec. 31, puts them in fear that they could be arrested and held by U.S. armed forces.

[....] “The government was given a number of opportunities at the hearing and in its briefs to state unambiguously that the type of expressive and associational activities engaged in by plaintiffs -- or others -- are not within Section 1021,” Forrest said. “It did not. This court therefore must credit the chilling impact on First Amendment rights as reasonable -- and real.”

Hedges, who testified he has been a foreign news correspondent for 20 years, said he has reported on 17 groups that are on a State Department list of terrorist groups. Hedges testified that after the law was passed, he changed his dealings with groups he had reported on, Forrest said.

[....] The case is Hedges v. Obama, 12-cv-00331, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).