President Obama’s speech touched on a number of significant and controversial national security policies–but perhaps the two most important were his proposed plan for dealing with Guantanamo detainees and his outline for reforming the State Secrets privilege, which may well become an issue when some of those detainees are tried in U.S. courts.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=142526