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In a tense-filled scene, six people are gathered on the far side of an oakwood-colored table scattered with papers and pens, a coffee dispenser and disposable cups in the foreground and a suited man standing in shadows at the back left. Rice has an expression of concern as she's looking to her left toward Cheney on the phone. Three of the other people around her, two women including Hughes and a man, stand around her and one man kneels to her right, all focused on the phone conversation Cheney apparently is having the the president.

A Quarter Century After 9/11: Lessons Learned and Lost

A former member of the George W. Bush administration’s National Security Council reflects on what the United States got right and wrong in its response to the 9/11 attacks.

Sep. 3, 2026 Ambassador Daniel Fried

How the Expansion of “Self-Defense” Has Undermined Constraints on the Use of Force

Legal Scholar Oona Hathaway examines how expansive U.S. interpretations of "self-defense" have shaped international law.

Sep. 18, 2023 Oona A. Hathaway

Memo to President Obama: You Have Another Memo to Withdraw

The election of Donald Trump has triggered an anxious conversation about how President Obama can entrench some of his accomplishments before January 21, 2017. Importantly, given…

Dec. 5, 2016 Beth Van Schaack

One More Thing on Goldsmith & Waxman

There is not much to add to my colleague Shalev Roisman’s response to Jack Goldsmith and Matthew Waxman’s essay in The New Republic arguing that it is President Obama, and…

Oct. 17, 2014 Brett Max Kaufman

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Bush administration

A Quarter Century After 9/11: Lessons Learned and Lost

How the Expansion of “Self-Defense” Has Undermined Constraints on the Use of Force

Memo to President Obama: You Have Another Memo to Withdraw

One More Thing on Goldsmith & Waxman

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