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The President’s Speech: A Quick and Dirty Reaction—Part 3 (Did the President Narrow the Targeting Criteria for Drone Strikes?)
Perhaps the most puzzling and opaque aspect of President Obama's speech today involves the question of whether he did, or didn't, narrow the criteria for targeting in drone strikes. -
The President's Speech: A Quick and Dirty Reaction--Part 2 (Guantanamo)
President Obama made two important announcements about aspects of Guantanamo and its detainees in his speech today. These are worth flagging before I pivot and harp on the big problem with the President'... -
The President’s Speech: A Quick and Dirty Reaction—Part 1 (Are We at War?)
One week ago, a senior Pentagon official went before the Senate Armed Services Committee, along with the Pentagon's top lawyers, and declared that the armed conflict with Al Qaeda and its associated forc... -
The President's Speech: What About GTMO Detainees Who Cannot be Tried, but also Cannot be Released?
In his speech today, President Obama explicitly raised this perennial, maddeningly difficult issue. -
White House Fact Sheet on Use of Force Away from Hot Battlefields
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary May 23, 2013 Fact Sheet: U.S. Policy Standards and Procedures for the Use of Force in Counterterrorism Operations Outside the United States and Areas of Act... -
The Obama Speech: The Same Standards for Targeted Killings Apply to Non-Citizens as to Citizens
There are many important strands to President Obama's national-security speech, but I want to focus on just one particularly noteworthy element. In clear terms, President Obama announced today that the s... -
Text of the President's Speech This Afternoon
The President's remarks follow below. The Future of our Fight against Terrorism Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery National Defense University May 23, 2013 -
Obama Speaks on U.S. Counterterrorism Policies
Watch President Obama's speech at National Defense University below: -
Closing Guantanamo: A View from Four Years Ago
In his speech this afternoon, the President is expected to announce a renewed effort to close Guantanamo. This will require hard work, both with Congress and with other countries. When the President ... -
Misconceptions Versus Essential Issues Concerning Drones
I recently posted an essay, with co-author Sam Issacharoff, on what we conceive to be the key legal, institutional, and process issues concerning the use of drones for targeted killings -- and even more ... -
New Detainee Filings on GTMO Counsel Access Issues
Today, counsel for Saeed Mohammed Hatim filed an "Emergency Motion Concerning Access to Counsel," both in the Yemeni detainee's recently reactivated habeas action, and in In Re: Guantanamo Bay Detainee C... -
The Attorney General's Letter to Congress on Anwar Al-Aulaqi
In advance of the President's speech tomorrow, the Attorney General has just sent this letter to Senator Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, describing the Administration's legal basis for...
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