March 13, 2015
MYTH: AUMFs never have sunsets. FACT: Ten prior AUMFs (almost a third to the total number of AUMFs) have included sunsets. Recent examples include the…
March 10, 2015
“Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it’s inconvenient to do so. And we have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism,…
March 2, 2015
Protecting the persecuted is a core American value.
The U.S. asylum system has protected thousands of refugees from returning to places where they would…
February 24, 2015
This synopsis includes the six most important elements of an authorization for use of military force (AUMF) against ISIL – some of which are already…
February 10, 2015
The Obama administration has now provided Congress with proposed legislative text for an Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) for the administration’s military…
January 29, 2015
John Brennan, CIA Director. “The prison at Guantánamo Bay undermines our national security, and our nation will be more secure the day when that prison is…
December 23, 2014
What’s new in the report? Didn’t we know about torture already?The report contains a lot of new and worrying information. The CIA program included the…
December 17, 2014
150 years following the ratification of the 13th Amendment officially abolishing slavery, the blight of human bondage remains a pervasive threat to liberty and dignity.…