Listen to Robert S. Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as he details his agency's efforts to effectively address threats from global terrorism as a global security, national security, and law enforcement organization.

Listen to Robert S. Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as he details his agency's efforts to effectively address threats from global terrorism as a global security, national security, and law enforcement organization.

Daniel B. Prieto discusses the counterterrorism efforts of the Obama Administration and evaluates options for how President Obama could "answer questions that lack easy answers."

Seven years after 9/11, there is still no durable framework for effectively securing the United States against terrorism while also upholding its values. This Working Paper by Daniel B. Prieto calls on President Obama and Congress to engage these issues in a bipartisan fashion and craft comprehensive long-term counterterrorism policies that reaffirm the U.S. commitment to core values; only then will the United States be able to develop the kind of foreign policy necessary to meet the modern terrorist threat.

The torture debate is critical not only because it gets us to the core of our values, but because the danger to American cities is not from tanks and armies, but from individuals and their intentions.

The Bush administration's approach to the detention and prosecution of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. But the battle continues.

In prepared testimony to the United States Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), Matthew Waxman discusses the legal and policy decisions regarding the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and the possibility of closing it down.

This report analyzes the debate over U.S. use of assurances against torture, explaining the contexts in which they are used, how they can be conveyed, and what they can contain, and recommends a number of ways to respond to criticism so that the United States can continue using assurances.

From the May/June 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs: Shutting down Guantánamo will cause new problems. Rather than hold the terrorism suspects, the United States should turn them over to its criminal justice system.

A catastrophic event in the nation's capital--either natural or manmade--could raise numerous constitutional questions about the continuity of the federal government. If one or more branches suffered severe damage, the system of checks and balances established in the Constitution could make reconstituting government an extremely complicated matter, at best. Speakers discuss the potential problems of such an event and make recommendations for how to address them.