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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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There are a number of areas in the president's speech yesterday in which Obama publicly aligns himself with critics of his administration, while promising in hard terms very little. As I described yester...
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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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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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Watch President Obama's speech at National Defense University below:
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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 ...
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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 ...