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Among the policies President Obama announced in his speech: a renewed commitment to transfer detainees to third countries, where possible. To that end, he said he would appoint a new GTMO-focused envoy a...
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My reactions to the President’s speech can be found in this essay at the CFR page. The headline writers gave it the title of Obama Passes the Buck: The President's Empty Rhetoric on Counterterrorism. T...
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The President's speech was a dog's breakfast: some good parts, some bad parts, and some ugly parts.
The Good. The most significant part of the speech was the President's description of clearer standar...
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Before it gets lost in the coverage of this afternoon's speech by the President, I wanted to flag a very important development in the ongoing saga that is the Bradley Manning court-martial.
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The press scandals keep on coming for the Obama Administration.
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Bill Keller of the NYT urges President Obama to order the Justice Department “to appoint an independent investigator with bulldog instincts and bipartisan credibility” to fully examine the IRS imbroglio ...
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An administration national security official writes in with the following thoughts on the furor over the warrant application against James Rosen of Fox News:
There is a great deal of hyperventilation---m...
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A few years ago I wrote an op-ed that gave these reasons (among others) why the USG should not prosecute Julian Assange for the WikiLeaks disclosures of State Department cables:
A conviction [of Assange]...
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Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with these thoughts on the AP subpoenas controversy and background law:
In light ...
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A common assumption in the debate about the appropriate legal regime for extra-AUMF threats is that the AUMF is cabined and cannot be extended to newly threatening Islamist terrorist threats. Yesterday’...
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It's been a rough week for the Obama Administration. In addition to outrage over IRS targeting of conservative groups and continued conspiratorial rumblings about the Administration's response to the Ben...
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Ben quotes from this morning's Washington Post editorial on AUMF reform, the last two sentences of which assert that "Countering the jihadists with intelligence and law enforcement tools manifestly faile...
