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Guantánamo and Beyond: What to Do about Detentions, Trials, and the “Global War” Paradigm
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Stephen J. Schulhofer,
The Century Foundation,
1/14/2009
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Among the many mega-headaches facing the incoming administration, the Guantánamo Bay
Detention Camp poses unique dangers, symbolically and operationally. By detaining hundreds of
prisoners there, without access to lawyers or to the courts, the United States probably has neutralized
some dangerous terrorists and acquired useful intelligence, but we also have damaged relationships
with our allies and fomented hatred against us, creating many violent extremists in the world at large
for every one that we held in Guantánamo. In this new publication from the Agenda Series, Stephen J. Schulhofer discusses how the new administration can restore domestic and international principles by relying upon the pre–September 11 institutions of military and civilian justice. Download the publication (PDF).
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Civility
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Richard C. Leone,
The Century Foundation,
4/14/2010
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Sixty seven world leaders gathered in Washington for a civilized set of discussions about one of the world’s great dangers, proliferation and the possible use of nuclear weapons. Barak Obama hosted the session and by all accounts had numerous productive meetings with individual leaders. There was, as well, good chemistry for the meetings in general. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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Poindexter Gets the Last Laugh
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Patrick Radden Keefe,
The Century Foundation,
3/2/2010
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Way back in 2003, when the public still retained some capacity for shock and outrage over state incursions on personal privacy, there was a brief outcry when it was revealed that the Pentagon was concocting a pervasive surveillance system with the laughably Orwellian name Total Information Awareness. The program was the brainchild of Admiral John Poindexter, the former National Security Advisor and disgraced Iran/Contra conspirator, who had been an early adopter of technology in the federal government—it was he who first introduced email to the White House—and who believed that comprehensive surveillance presented the best hope for preventing another 9/11. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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The Year in Civil LIberties and the Rule of Law
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Patrick Radden Keefe,
The Century Foundation,
12/29/2009
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To many progressives, one of the most galvanizing aspects of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency was his pledge to roll back the executive excesses of the Bush-Cheney era and restore a sensible balance between national security and civil liberties in American political life. “We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals,” the newly elected president declared in his inaugural address. And after eight years of secrecy and skullduggery in the name of national security, Obama’s stated determination to get the country back on track engendered an upswell of devotion that helped sweep him into office, and an almost impossibly high set of expectations. Continue to the blog
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Breaking! NSA Over-reaches, Life Goes On
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Patrick Radden Keefe,
The Century Foundation,
4/16/2009
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What can we gather from today’s revelations, from James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times, that the National Security Agency engaged in the improbable crime of “overcollection”— “significant and systemic” domestic eavesdropping that exceeded even the extravagant authority provided to the agency by the FISA Amendment Act of 2008? For starters, it’s time to finally acknowledge that overstretch and excess by intelligence agencies like the NSA are not the exception but the rule; as a general matter, the professional imperatives for an intelligence collector all align in favor of overcollection. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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| Counter-Terrorism and the International Community: Waxing Fatigue, Waning Commitment?
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The Century Foundation & Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation
- 9/5/2008
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Terrorism officials from dozens of countries came to the United Nations in New York for a two-day meeting of the General Assembly ( 4-5 September 2008) to review their governments' implementation of the U.N. Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy adopted in 2006. The meeting provided an opportunity for The Century Foundation and the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation to organize a luncheon roundtable to allow candid discussion among those officials, U.N. representatives, U.S. representatives, and terrorism experts on "Counter-Terrorism and the International Community: Waxing Fatigue, Waning Commitment?" on Friday, September 5.
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| 90 Years of Progress
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- 12/1/2009
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This year marked the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of The Century Foundation (which was known for most of its history as the Twentieth Century Fund). Our founder, Edward Filene, created this organization with the goal of supporting studies and analysis that could lead to constructive action on our nation’s public policy. That heritage has compelled us to educate, provoke, and develop better answers when evidence and reason show that public debates are badly off track. Over the past nine decades, we have called attention to facts and analyses to correct widespread misconceptions and provide policymakers with new ideas for addressing the challenges facing the nation.
We have created this video to provide a glimpse into our story and how it is intertwined with America’s story for much of the twentieth century and beyond.
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