Promise Posts – Page 60

Barack Obama

Establish regulations to secure chemical plants

Rules on chemical plants are not as strong as envisioned | December 27, 2016

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Create a real National Infrastructure Protection Plan

Protection plan was updated | December 21, 2009

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Allocate Homeland Security funding according to risk

Grants to be awarded based on risk | December 21, 2009

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Restore habeas corpus rights for “enemy combatants”

Many enemy combatants still lack habeas rights | December 13, 2012

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Restrict warrantless wiretaps

Some limits on warrantless wiretaps but loopholes remain | November 18, 2016

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Revise the Patriot Act to increase oversight on government surveillance

More oversight, but limits not ironclad | October 12, 2016

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Develop an alternative to President Bush’s Military Commissions Act on handling detainees

No end in sight for military commissions | September 21, 2011

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Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center

41 prisoners remain at Gitmo as Obama leaves office | January 20, 2017

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End the use of extreme rendition

Extraordinary rendition officially ruled out, but secrecy makes its elimination hard to prove | December 4, 2012

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End the use of torture

Wide agreement that Obama’s torture ban has held | November 14, 2011

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Give a speech at a major Islamic forum in the first 100 days of his administration

Obama says in Turkey that U.S. not at war with Islam | April 10, 2009

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Launch a new ‘America’s Voice Corps’

America’s Voice Corps still unsung | November 8, 2012

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Open “America Houses” in Islamic cities around the globe

Jakarta center is first of a new generation | January 18, 2011

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Establish a Global Education Fund

No sign of $2 billion bump for alternatives to madrassas | November 19, 2012

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Double U.S. spending on foreign aid to $50 billion a year by 2012

An increase, but nowhere close to double | November 20, 2012

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Spend $5 billion over three years on cooperative programs with foreign intelligence agencies

Partnership up and running, but funding is unclear | December 19, 2012

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Better integrate efforts of federal agencies with the military through new Mobile Development Teams

Military-civilian teams have operated in far-flung corners of Afghanistan | December 21, 2012

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Make U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts

Pakistan aid package comes with strings | October 19, 2009

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Increase non-military aid to Afghanistan by $1 billion

Administration meets goal of boosting non-military funding in Afghanistan | May 15, 2012

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Train and equip the Afghan army

Afghan forces take the lead but still need U.S. help | December 8, 2016

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Work to end NATO restrictions on forces in Afghanistan

U.S. had some success in curbing restrictions, but point is mostly moot now | January 14, 2013

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Create a system of incentives and penalties for defense contracts

Progress on defense contracts, but still room for improvement | November 8, 2012

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Restore the government’s ability to manage contracts by rebuilding our contract officer corps

Some progress, but much work remains | November 3, 2011

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End the abuse of supplemental budgets for war

Money in budgets, but supplementals aren’t going away | September 16, 2010

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