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30 Jan 2023, 5:49 am by Brian Finucane
President Barack Obama pledged to take the United States off of a perpetual war footing and publicly introduced exacting standards for the use of force outside “areas of active hostilities,” yet his foreign policy legacy is inextricably tied to controversies around drone warfare and failure to close the detention facility at Guantanamo. [read post]
10 Nov 2015, 12:00 am
The Obama Administration announced Nov. 10 it will seek United States Supreme Court review of a ruling blocking President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration. [read post]
20 Jul 2009, 4:48 pm by Moderator
It states, for example, that UBS bankers advised U.S. clients to withdraw funds from their accounts using Swiss credit cards that “could not be discovered by the United States authorities”, to “destroy all off-shore banking records existing in the United States”; and to “misrepresent the receipt of funds from the Swiss bank account in the United States as loans from the Swiss Bank. [read post]
President Joe Biden announced earlier this month that his administration would study how it could shut down Guantanamo Bay, an effort that was initially proposed by former president Barack Obama. [read post]
31 May 2012, 9:13 am by David Kravets
Congress, with the vote of President Barack Obama — who was an Illinois senator at the time — subsequently legalized much of the warrantless spying in the summer of 2008. [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 8:33 am by Quinta Jurecic
” The former is human; the latter is an immortal entity constituting the quasi-spiritual essence of monarchical authority and the state itself. [read post]
4 Mar 2019, 8:02 pm
-Cuban relations have nosedived since Trump became president, partially rolling back the detente initiated by Obama and reverting to Cold War-style rhetoric. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 1:25 pm by Elina Saxena, Cody M. Poplin
Yesterday, President Obama issued a direct apology to the head of Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, over the attack in Kunduz. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 8:14 am by Daniel Byman
The administration has improved relations with important allies like Saudi Arabia and continued the military campaign that began under former President Barack Obama, which is steadily driving the Islamic State from its strongholds in Iraq and Syria. [read post]
5 Dec 2008, 5:58 pm
The  government’s brief is not due  until after President-elect Barack Obama takes office, so his administration will have the option of changing  the government’s present position in defense of the detention authority. [read post]
21 Nov 2014, 11:08 am by Cody Poplin
Earlier this week, Ben wrote about the legality of President Obama’s executive power to produce unilateral immigration reform. [read post]
24 May 2010, 6:30 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
President Obama named the following individuals as Co-Chairs of National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling: Senator Bob Graham is the former two-term governor of Florida and served for 18 years in the United States Senate. [read post]
16 Apr 2019, 12:10 pm
It could also affect some U.S. companies that began investing in the island, an old Cold War foe, since former President Barack Obama began a process of normalizing relations between the two countries from the end of 2014. [read post]
1 Dec 2015, 1:30 pm by Elina Saxena
While in Paris, President Obama met with his Russian, French, and Turkish counterparts individually to discuss the global fight against ISIS. [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 12:52 pm by Rishabh Bhandari, Quinta Jurecic
Japan Times reports that President Barack Obama is slated to become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos when he joins other global leaders for an Asian summit next week. [read post]
2 Jun 2014, 5:44 pm by Cindy Cohn and Nadia Kayyali
Only weeks after the first Snowden leak, US President Barack Obama claimed: “We know of at least 50 threats that have been averted” because of the NSA’s spy powers. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 7:23 am by Jeralyn
Motion to issue a trial subpoena to President Barack Obama is denied. [read post]