The White House dropped its veto threat of the dangerous defense authorization bill, despite the continued opposition of FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III. With that threat aside, the House passed the bill last night and the Senate took it up today. It passed in the Senate, 86-13.

Adam Serwer has been doing bang up work on the bill and the threat it poses to the constitutional rights of Americans. He sums it up:

The administration had said that the military detention provisions of an earlier version of the NDAA were "inconsistent with the fundamental American principle that our military does not patrol our streets." The revised NDAA is still inconsistent with that fundamental American principle. But the administration has decided that fundamental American principles aren't actually worth vetoing the bill over.