Articles tagged with: Obama Administration
SHEEMA KHAN
From Thursday’s Globe and Mail
Nascent relations between the Harper government and the Obama administration have been marked by the absence of public discourse about the fate of child soldier Omar Khadr.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper …
On his visit to Turkey last week, President Obama made important progress toward recalibrating America’s relations with the Islamic world. The president steered away from the poisonous post-9/11 clash of civilizations mythology that drove so …
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that three memos written by the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel in the Bush administration authorizing specific interrogation techniques amounting to …
Marda Dunsky, ISPU Fellow
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Having chanted the mantra of change that helped sweep him into the White House, Barack Obama now has the opportunity to channel that mantra into …
JURIST Guest Columnist Bruce Miller of Western New England College School of Law says that despite the Obama administration’s intent to criminally charge Ali Al-Marri in a US court, his challenge to his detention as …
Michael Williams | The Guardian
Last week Barack Obama announced a new strategy for Afghanistan that he believes addresses the fundamental realities of the problem – including the rather belated American realization that Pakistan is integral …
WESLEY WARK
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
April 1, 2009 at 12:00 AM EDT
The Obama administration inherited many toxic legacies from its Bush/Cheney predecessor. At the top of the list has to be the “war on terror,” …
By WILLIAM GLABERSON and MARGOT WILLIAMS
Published: March 31, 2009
WASHINGTON — Ilshat Hassan’s flight from China has brought refuge, a job at the consulting firm Booz Allen and an apartment in the Virginia suburbs.
Mr. Hassan, an …
By Eric Margolis
President Barack Obama has now taken full ownership of the Afghanistan War. Gone are Washington’s pretenses that a western ‘coalition’ was waging this conflict. Gone, too, is the comic book term, ‘war on …
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says the Obama administration should not call upon US Justice Department lawyers to defend John Yoo and other former members of the Bush …
