Obama: the rhetoric of justice (guest blog)

At approximately 11:35 p.m. on May 1, speaking from the East Room of the White House, President Obama announced “to the American people and the world” that “justice has been done,” that he had personally “authorized an operation to get Osama Bin Laden and bring him to justice.” POLIS Silverstone Scholar Marco Scalvini gives his analysis of Obama’s discourse.