Anthony Clark Arend

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• Video: President Obama discusses his Asian trip

• Former Bush Administration Justice Department officials on Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and others in federal court

  Former Justice Department officials James Comey and Jack Goldsmith have a very thoughtful op ed in today’s Washington Post. The write: Reasonable minds can disagree about Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to prosecute Khalid Sheik…

• US War Crimes ambassador addresses the ICC Assembly of Parties

  The AP reports: The American war crimes ambassador said Thursday the U.S. is committed to ending impunity for crimes against humanity, in a speech signaling a softening of hostility toward the International Criminal Court.Stephen Rapp’s…

• Video: This Day in History: 1863, The Gettysburg Address

  The Gettysburg Address “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are…

• Blood diamonds: More indications that the Kimberley Process is failing

  A previous post discussed troubling news about the Kimberley Process for regulating the trade in diamond. Now the Liberian Observer is reporting: Spokesman for the Kimberly Process International Civil Society Coalition, Alfred Lahai Brownell Sr.,…

• Video: Leahy questions Eric Holder at today’s Judiciary Committee hearing

• Video: White House Director of Citizen Participation Katie Stanton on the Shanghai Town Hall and technology

  A previous post contained a video of President Obama’s town hall meeting in China where he was posed a question about Twitter and Internet access. The White House today posted this video from Katie Stanton,…

• Remembering the Jesuit Martyrs in El Salvador: November 16, 1989

  Celina Ramos Elba Julia Ramos Ignacio Ellacuria, SJ Amando Lopez, SJ Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, SJ Ignacio Martin-Baro, SJ Segundo Montes, SJ Juan Ramon Moreno, SJ + Martyred November 16, 1989 El Salvador A few…

• Video: Obama holds town hall with Chinese Students; addresses Internet access and Twitter

  In an address given at a town hall meeting with “Future Chinese Leaders,” President Obama was asked a question about Twitter. Here is the exchange: PRESIDENT OBAMA: Okay.  All right?  Jon — I’m going to…

• Video: Obama at the ASEAN-10 Meeting