Memo to President Obama: You Have Another Memo to Withdraw

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Author(s): Beth Van SchaackPublication Date: December 5, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingThe 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 the Trump campaign’s embrace of waterboarding and “worse”, President Obama would do well to ensure that he has fully dismantled the Bush Administration’s post-9/11 detention and interrogation system.