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Hello and welcome to the LawFair podcast, I'm Ritika Singh. In this episode, Daniel

Baiman of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Ben Wittis of the governance studies

program at Brookings launched their report entitled, Tools and Trade Offs, Confronting

US Citizen Terrorist Suspects Abroad. The paper surveys the wide range of authorities

and powers the United States has deployed against its citizens when they are suspected of engaging

in terrorist activity overseas. It also examines the cost and benefits of these various tools

for policy makers. The launch event was moderated by Bruce Raidel, Director of the Intelligence

Project at Brookings, and was followed by an audience Q&A.

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, I urge you to do the same, please turn off your cell

phones and any other electronic devices you have with you. I want to welcome you to

the Brookings Institution, especially today because we are unveiling a new paper, I hope

you've had a chance to pick one up, tools and trade-offs dealing with the question of

confronting US citizen terrorist suspects abroad. This is an issue which has acquired a great

deal of interest and importance over the course of the last six months. It is an interest

that strikes at the heart of two fundamentally important issues, the national security

of the United States and the defense of the American homeland against terrorist threats

from abroad, and the second question, the rights of American citizens to be perfected

against their own government. It all comes together as the paper indicates very much in one

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