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With all the was-it-legal-to-kill-UBL talk, I'm a bit surprised that this morning's news out of Yemen is getting so little attention. Jeb Boone at the Washington Post reports that a missile struck a veh...
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Analysis of the legality of the UBL operation continues to proliferate. Among the many I've seen today, I would recommend Gabor Rona's fine piece defending the legality of the attack from the point of v...
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The other night, with CNN reporting very tentatively that the Bin Laden operation had likely been a drone strike, Bobby and I got a little ahead of ourselves. Bobby said that it will "be interesting inde...
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It is better to be lucky than to be good, and we might well find out here that President Obama has lucked into this one. But it's worth pausing for a moment over the possibility that a significant strate...
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I'm not. I want to hear from Mary Ellen O'Connell on this. Was this strike--if it was, in fact, a drone strike--unlawful? Are the CIA personnel who conducted it war criminals?
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[SECOND UPDATE: Not a drone strike, and probably not a test of the legal questions raised by drones...see here.]
The President has not yet spoken to the public, but early reports indicate that UBL was k...
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I have recently blogged about two issues: whether congressional authorization is required as a constitutional matter for U.S.
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The press coverage today of the leaked files concerning the Guantanamo detainees provides a dramatic contrast with public discussions over the operations in Libya. The focus on the detainees is agonizin...
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The Associated Press is reporting that U.S.
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Below find the prepared hearing testimony from yesterday's hearing before the full Senate Judiciary Committee.
April 6, 2011: The Electronic Communications Privacy Act: Government Perspectives on Protec...
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As part of my blood oath to spend the next few years writing on subjects other than detention, I have just released this paper on the inadequacy of privacy as a conceptual framework for regulating person...
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As Scott Shane reported in today's New York Times, the panel of independent psychiatric experts who reviewed the behavioral health history of Dr. Bruce E. Ivins--the person believed to be responsible for...