Legal Architecture for the War on Terror

Reuters/POOL New - A Guantanamo guard stands inside doorway at Camp 6 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base.
Benjamin Wittes and Colleen A. Peppard, June 26, 2009
Closing the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay by President Obama's January deadline is pressuring the administration to craft a new system for incarcerating terrorist suspects, possibly through an executive order. Benjamin Wittes and Colleen Peppard suggest instead a model law for terrorist incapacitation.
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Legal Architecture for the War on Terror, Terrorism, Justice and Law, Guantánamo, Executive Branch
Technology

Reuters/Demotix Images - Protesters march during a silent demonstration against the results of the Iranian presidential election in central Tehran.
Darrell M. West, June 22, 2009
The role of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter in recent Iranian street demonstrations shows the power of digital technologies. At the same time that these technologies facilitate grass-roots communications, they also sow the seeds for future political repression, writes Darrell West.
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Iran, Internet Policy, Technology, E-Government, Civil Society
Education

Reuters/Kevin Lamarque - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets with Australian Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the White House in Washington.
Friday, June 19, 2009
10:30 AM to 12:00:00 PM
Washington, DC
In a roundtable discussion on education reform, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard outlined the similarities between the reform agendas in the United States and Australia. Highlighting a commitment to transparency and a promise to create a high-quality national curriculum, Minister Gillard notes that Australia would keep pace with its Asia-Pacific neighbors and create a plan to increase secondary school graduation rates.
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Education, K-12 Education, Australia and New Zealand
Technology

Reuters/Tami Chappell - Centers for Disease Control workers monitor the H1N1 flu virus outbreak from the CDC Emergency Operations Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Darrell M. West and Jenny Lu, June 2009
Technology can be a tool for making government better and democracy stronger. However, the public sector has continued to fall behind the private sector in technology innovation, writes Darrell West. Evaluating the web sites of leading U.S. corporations with state and national governments, West offers five reasons why the private sector has outpaced government in effective innovation, and ways the public sector could improve.
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E-Government, Information Technology, Technology, Corporations, Business