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Ted Asregadoo discusses President Obama’s May 23, 2013 speech on counter-terrorism with law professor and Truthout writer, Marjorie Cohn. The conversation centers on torture and indefinite detention at Guantanamo, Just War theory and the administration’s new rules on drone strikes.
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