The American media were outraged, when after 9/11 Bush pushed through congress the original National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). And to a certain extent, we agreed.  Our collective argument:  “If you give up your freedoms for protection, you lose both.”   But now we are appalled that President Obama, through executive order, without consent of congress has granted the U.S. military the right to kidnap U.S. citizens, detain them indefinitely,  with no jury, no trial, no legal representation and no requirement that the government produce evidence. Our military cannot water board foreign terrorists but they can and did under Obama’s authorization, take out an American citizen abroad with drones.  This is all conducted completely outside the protection of law. And the media is silent