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Speaking the law : the Obama administration's addresses on national security law / Kenneth Anderson and Benjamin Wittes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Kenneth, 1956- author.
- Wittes, Benjamin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National security--Law and legislation--United States.
- National security.
- National security--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Terrorism--Prevention--Law and legislation--United States.
- Terrorism.
- Terrorism--Prevention--Law and legislation.
- United States--Politics and government--2009-.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 542 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2015.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2015]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- When Barack Obama came into office, the strategic landscape facing the United States in its overseas counterterrorism operations was undergoing a shift. Even before the rise of drones necessitated the articulation of legal doctrine, the Obama administration had to explain itself. In Speaking the Law, the authors offer a detailed examination of the speeches of the Obama administration on national security legal issues. Viewed together here for the first time, they lay out a broad array of legal and policy positions regarding a large number of principles currently contested at both the domestic and the international level. The book describes what the Obama administration has said about the legal framework in which it is operating with respect to such questions as the nature of the war on terrorism, the use of drones and targeted killings, detention, trial by military commission and federal courts, and interrogation. The authors analyze this framework, examining the stresses on it and asking where the administration got matters right and where it went wrong. They conclude with suggestions for reforms to the framework for the administration and Congress to consider. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- An overview of the Obama administration's canonical speeches of the first term
- The good, the bad, and the underdeveloped
- The president's NDU speech and the pivot from the first term to the second
- The speeches of interaction with other branches of government
- The framework and its discontents
- Conclusion
- Appendixes. Addresses and remarks by President Obama and administration officials on national security
- About the authors
- About the Hoover Instiution's Jean Perkins task force on national security and law
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780817916565
- 0817916563
- Publisher Number:
- 99986472914
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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