Stephen Vladeck
Stephen Vladeck
Stephen Vladeck
Stephen Vladeck
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Stephen Vladeck
It’s not too late to revisit one of the darkest chapters in the U.S. response to terror: the unfounded, mass roundup of hundreds of Arab and Muslim immigrants.
A recent court decision drives home how misconceived the Guantánamo military commissions have been from the get-go, and how little they now stand to accomplish.
How much do you know about this controversial piece of legislation? Take the quiz.
The president’s war powers request doesn’t touch the 9/11 AUMF, leaving in place a blank check for unlimited U.S. military operations anytime, anywhere.
President Obama should go to Congress to seek statutory authorization for the war we will be fighting — not the war we sought to fight a decade ago.
Whatever the reason for our loss of interest in Guantánamo, we ignore the continuing plight of the detainees at our peril.
President Obama was correct last May that “this war, like all wars, must end.” But democracy demands actual leadership on that front, and not empty platitudes.
Five years ago, President Obama issued his plan to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. It’s still open. Here’s a compromise that could finally shut it.
The NSA remains committed to the idea that, because a surveillance program will be more effective if no one knows about it, the public should remain ignorant.
Whatever else might be said about the disclosures by Edward Snowden, one thing that this week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing makes clear is that we now