Joe Rogan Experience #2552 - Ehsan Ahmad & Deric Poston · Aired Sep 10, 2026
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The 2012 NDAA authorizes the indefinite detention of individuals, including American citizens, without charge or trial.
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The 2012 NDAA does let the military hold people connected to al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces without charge or trial, but the law itself says it is not meant to change existing law on detaining U.S. citizens one way or the other. That ambiguity was fought over in court, and the appeals court ultimately ruled the section says nothing about the government's authority over citizens, so stating flatly that it authorizes detaining Americans overstates a provision that courts found deliberately unresolved.
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Is it true that the 2012 NDAA authorizes the indefinite detention of individuals, including American citizens, without charge or trial?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. S. citizens one way or the other. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2552 - Ehsan Ahmad & Deric Poston, aired Sep 10, 2026, at 2:23:37. The supporting source is en.wikipedia.org, linked below.
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