Hugo Rosemont, a Security Policy Adviser to the UK security industry and a doctoral student, writes in with the following account of a speech in London by Lord Carlile, who served until recently as the B...

In the past couple of days, both Jack and I have called for greater transparency concerning the legal rationale for the drones program.

Over at Slate, Will Saletan has an interesting post up querying whether the Fifth Amendment analysis potentially underlying the decision to kill al-Aulaqi--broken down into requirements that the person b...

Raha Wala of Human Rights First writes in with the following objections to my analysis of the Anwar Al-Aulaqi killing: I don’t know if killing Aulaqi was legal because I don’t know what factual basis the...

The Washington Post reports that the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel wrote a classified legal opinion in support of the al-Aulaqi killing.  Carrie Budoff Brown* at Politico reports that form...

Here is an op-ed I have written for Monday’s Washington Post on the likely international reaction to the killing of al-Awlaki. With respect to US law, I have noted previously that if Congress becomes co...

"God bless Ben," Spencer Ackerman writes, "he's really trying hard to think through what the rules ought to be for killing an American citizen accused of terrorist membership." My effort in that regard, ...

In an editorial on Friday about the al-Awlaki killing, I stated: An attack on an enemy soldier during war is not an assassination. During World War II, the United States targeted and killed Adm. Isoroku ...

Over at Attackerman, Spencer Ackerman has written two posts (here and here) posing challenging question about the legality of the Al Aulaqi strike; in the second post, he also critiques my earlier due pr...

Greg Miller has a story for the Washington Post discussing the al-Aulaqi strike from the perspective of CIA-military "convergence."  It's a topic near and dear to my heart.  'm close to finishing off a l...

Once again, she is accusing Barack Obama of serious crimes. And once again, she refuses to say what she's really saying. In this article on CNN.com.

CNN is reporting that Haji Mali Khan, the senior commander of the Afghan Haqqani insurgent group, was captured in a joint Afghan-NATO operation on Tuesday (the announcement of his capture was delayed unt...

Yesterday, the New York Times reported that Samir Khan, a 25-year old U.S. citizen from North Carolina, was killed in the same drone strike that targeted Anwar al-Aulaqi.

The Washington Post leads this morning with a story headlined "Secret U.S.

The functional arguments in support of the killing of Al-Awlaki — that he posed substantial, verified threats to the United States and could not reasonably be apprehended and placed on trial — seem fairl...

They are here.

For those interested in more detail on Anwar Al-Aulaqi's alleged operational role in terrorist plots, this piece from the Long War Journal back in March, written by Thomas Joscelyn, is well worth a read....

Professor Michael Lewis writes in with the following guest post: Why IHL and not Self-Defense Should be Considered the Legal Basis for the Awlaki Operation Anwar al-Awlaki is dead, apparently killed by ...