by Travis Sharp Published in The Register Citizen (Connecticut) on September 21, 2009 While media elites and professional pundits love to frame public policy debates as epic battles of conservative and liberal worldviews, judgments about national security rarely boil down to two stark alternatives. The president typically considers at least a handful of distinct options […]
Center Chairman and Council Board Member Joins Obama for Signing of Guantanamo Closure Order
by Robert G. Gard On January 22, President Barack Obama signed an executive order that closes the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay within one year. The order also ends the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret overseas prison program and bans torture. Joining Obama at the Oval Office signing ceremony was Lt. General Robert Gard, chairman of […]