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Use of Force and Arms Control

President Obama Outlines Shifts in U.S. Counterterrorism Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2013

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References

1 See White House Press Release, Fact Sheet: The President’s May 23 Speech on Counterterrorism (May 23, 2013), at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/23/fact-sheet-president-s-may-23-speech-counterterrorism.

2 Scott Shane, Debate Aside, Drone Strikes Drop Sharply, N.Y. Times, May 22, 2013, at A1.

3 Scott Wilson, Obama to Address Security Measures, Wash. Post, May 19, 2013, at A8; Charlie Savage & Peter Baker, Obama, in a Shift, to Limit Targets of Drone Strikes, N.Y. Times, May 23, 2013, at A1; Peter Baker, Reviving Debate on Nation’s Security, Obama Seeks to Narrow Terror Fight, N.Y. Times, May 24, 2013, at A1; Editorial, The End of Perpetual War, N.Y. Times, May 24, 2013, at A20; Karen DeYoung & Greg Miller,Obama Points to ‘Cross roads’ in Terrorism Fight, Wash. Post, May 24, 2013, at A1; Editorial, The Nature of War, Wash. Post, May 24, 2013, at A18; Peter Baker, In Terror Shift, Obama Took a Long Path, N.Y. Times, May 28, 2013, at A1.

4 Finn, Peter, Military, Detainees Clash at Guantanamo Bay, Wash. Post, Apr. 14, 2013, at A16Google Scholar; Finn, Peter & Tate, Julie, Signs of Growing Frustrations at Guantanamo Bay, Wash. Post, Mar. 17, 2013, at A3Google Scholar; Savage, Charlie, Despair Drives U.S. Detainees to Stage Revolt, N.Y. Times, Apr. 25, 2013, at A1Google Scholar; Finn, Peter & Tate, Julie, Protest Spotlights Indefinite Detention, Wash. Post, May 3, 2013, at A5Google Scholar.

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6 White House Press Release, supra note 1.

7 [Editor’s note:see U.S. Attorney General Confirms Deaths of Four Americans in U.S. Counterterrorism Operations, this issue.]

8 White House Press Release, Remarks by the President at the National Defense University (May 23, 2013), at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/23/remarks-president-national-defense-university [here inafter NDU Remarks].

9 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, Pub. L. No. 107-40, 115 Stat. 224 (2001).

10 NDU Remarks, supra note 8.

11 Savage, Charlie, Obama Renews Effort to Close Prison in Cuba, N.Y. Times, May 1, 2013, at A1Google Scholar; Wilson, Scott & Goldfarb, Zachary A., Obama Will Try Again to Shut Guantanamo, Wash. Post, May 1, at A4Google Scholar; Finn, Peter & Tate, Julie, New Guantanamo Plan Faces Same High Hurdles, Wash.Post, May 24,2013, at A4Google Scholar; Finn, Peter & Wilson, Scott, A 2009 Redux on Guantanamo, Wash. Post, May 25, 2013, at A4Google Scholar.

12 [Editor’s note: see Crook, John R., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 105 AJIL 333, 351 (2011)Google Scholar.]

13 [Editor’s note: The Department of State office previously charged with negotiating repatriation of detainees was closed in January 2013. Charlie Savage, Office Working to Close Guantánamo Is Shuttered, N.Y. Times, Jan. 29, 2013, at A14.]

14 [Editor’s note: see Savage, Charlie, Obama Lifts Moratorium on Transfer of Detainees, N.Y. Times, May 24, 2013, at A8Google Scholar.]

15 NDU Remarks, supra note 8.

16 Baker, Reviving Debate, supra note 3; Stolberg, Sheryl Gay, Republicans Say Obama’s Strategy Shows Misunder standing of Terrorist Threat, N.Y. Times, May 27, 2013, at A4Google Scholar.