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By Zak Newman, ACLU Washington Legislative Office

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A Definite End to Indefinite Detention Is Within Reach

This piece originally appeared in Foreign Policy on December 10, 2014.
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Countering Violent Extremism: Time for the Administration to Get It Right

Today President Obama took the unusual step of chairing a meeting of the U.N. Security Council. He went seeking international support for the campaign against the group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), including a U.S.-sponsored resolution that, among other things, urges governments to "counter violent extremism"—an approach that the United States is also taking here at home.