Boo Bush’s Ad-Hoc-ism! Yay Obama’s Ad-Hoc-ism!

To build on Daphne’s point, how can President Obama reconcile these two claims?

The decisions that were made over the last eight years established an ad hoc legal approach for fighting terrorism that was neither effective nor sustainable – a framework that failed to rely on our legal traditions

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Rep. Frank Wolf vs. the Obama Administration on Uighurs

One of the running problems for the White House’s campaign to close Guantanamo Bay has been the objection of Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), who represents Langley in the House, to resettling 17 Uighur detainees in his district. According to Wolf’s spokesman, Daniel Scandling, the congressman has gotten no satisfactory More…