NDAA Status -- Time Has Nearly Run Out [UPDATED]

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I have spent the past hour trying to discover the exact current status of the National Defense Authorization Act. It has proved difficult to accomplish.

As you may know the Senate passed their version of the bill (S1867) and the House passed their version (HR1540), both by wide margins. The legislation, as always, then when to a Conference Committee comprised of members of both houses, so that a compromise edition resolving any differences between the two packages can be sent back to the Senate and the House for final votes.

A motion was passed to allow the deliberations of this Conference Committee to take place behind closed doors, since the public discussion of matters as important as overturning the Posse Comitatus Act and Habeus Corpus would probably only serve to confuse the slaves.

The Conference Committee did their deed quickly and the House voted on the Conference Report (the compromise version of the NDAA) yesterday. It passed by a vote of 283 to 136.

Can we at least read the Conference Report, now that all the secret deliberations are over? I can't find it online. There is a link, ostensibly to the "Latest Conference Report" from this page: [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.1540:], but that link takes one nowhere... at least right now.

At least I was able to find this valuable information at Campaign for Liberty:

The Senate will have the last vote today on the NDAA Conference Report around 4pm this afternoon.

This is the last chance to stop a bill that will for the first time, codify in law the ability for the President to order the military to detain American citizens without trial "until the end of hostilities." As we all know, the "War on Terror" isn't exactly shaping up to be a "war" that "ends" anytime soon, thus making that detention indefinite.

The ironic part?

This is all happening on "Bill of Rights Day."

220 years ago today, the Bill of Rights became part of the Constitution after being ratified by the several states.

Now, 220 years later, a bill that would do away with due process, ignore the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th amendments, is poised to pass the Senate and be signed by President Barack Obama.

So, by the end of this day, we should know where we stand [or where we kneel, with our hands zip-tied behind our backs]. There is still the miniscule chance that Obama may not sign it, because it does not give him ENOUGH dictatorial power. But even should that miracle occur, it's arguable that the traitorous legislature might just have the votes to overturn a veto.

Happy Bill of Rights Day.

UPDATE ::

Late this afternoon, the Senate passed the "Conference Report to accompany H.R. 1540," i.e., the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. The measure passed by a vote of 86 to 13. It was a roll-call vote, so you can see how your senators voted here.

The government has now declared war on its citizens.

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