Roll Call: Reid Must Block Militarization of Justice System

Op-ed by Brigadier General David R. Irvine, USA (Ret.).

Tucked into the sizable fiscal 2012 defense bill are stealth provisions that, taken together, represent the most radical change of American counterterrorism policy since 9/11.

These policies will not make us safer. They will undermine our national security and make the United States a very different country than the city on the hill that American leaders such as President John F. Kennedy and President Ronald Reagan both exhorted it to be.