Thank you for this incredibly relevant post.  It is this vital point you raise (the passing of the NDAA of 2012) that consistently gets lost in this topic by Clarence Moriwaki, Tom Ikeda of Densho, and others.

Obama, with bipartisan and nearly unanimous support (including from then Congressman Jay Inslee), passed this law that allows the president on his say so alone... to have the military secretly arrest an American citizen or legal resident in America, without charge or trial, and secretly hold them in a black site prison anywhere in the world.... indefinitely.  No due process.

Yet Clarence, while quick to mention Trump and his fears, consistently praised Obama and Inslee (who he worked for as special assistant) with no detectable (that we can find) rebuke for what they did with the NDAA of 2012.  Obama even defended this unconstitutional power in court against the liberal plaintiffs Chris Hedges, Dr. Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, and Dan Ellsburg.

Why the silence?  Never again?