The $607 billion defense policy bill Barack Obama signed (despite "serious reservations") on November 25, 2015 authorizes indefinite isolation, torture, and show trials; provisions characteristic of a fascist state.

"A hallmark of totalitarianism is the creation of a prison system outside the rule of law that is largely designed to imprison and torture one minority group. The Guantanamo Bay gulag is unquestionably a crime against humanity. There is unlimited cruelty in a system that seems to be unable to free the innocent and unable to punish the guilty."
-- Garikai Chengu, The Rise of the American-Muslim Totalitarian State