This week marks President Barack Obama’s 100th day in office, a significant milestone for the new administration. While the president and his team work to address a number of pressing domestic problems including the economy and health care, the shadow of controversial Bush administration foreign policies still looms large.
Democrats in Congress are calling for a “truth commission” to investigate, and potentially hold accountable, those who carried out harsh interrogation methods used on terrorist suspects. President Obama rejected such a commission calling it a distraction from the nation’s problems that would steal time and energy away from his policy agenda. Meanwhile, the Justice Department continues to struggle with where to place foreign detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay, as officials carry out the President’s order to close the detention camp within a year.
In this episode of Law in 10, host Pam Hardy discusses President Obama’s efforts to address the fallout of the Bush administration’s foreign policy with Associate Dean William Aceves, an internationally-respected expert in the areas of human rights and international law.
