The NDAA, what exactly does it entail?

It allows for indefinite detention of US citizens without trial or hearing. Or to put it another way if you do something (anything) the government thinks is a risk to security you get locked up and they throw away the key and the don’t even have to tell you why.

^^ Which is very much against our usual standard of due process. So not cool. :/

They snuck it in with the budget. President Obama caved in on his threat to veto it.

As Ben Franklin said “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

Here’s a clear article about the three ”myths” of the objectionable parts of the bill. In particular, the writer is pointing out that all the people who say it doesn’t change our rights are wrong, and in my opinion in delusional denial.

Obama threatened to veto it, then didn’t. It had nothing to do with any objection to indefinitely detaining American citizens, since he suggested that very thing months ago. The veto threat had to do with language that the white house perceived would get in the way of their power to direct and control the war on terror.

Continuing what @augustlan and @Lightlyseared said: It is directly against one of the core reasons on which this country was established.