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The central substantive issue, legally and morally, in the administration's Targeted Killing White Paper is how the concept of an "imminent threat" should be understood. This is where much of the debate ...
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Eric Posner and Jeff Rosen have sharply different takes on the White paper.
Jeff is outraged:
The Justice Department white paper released on Monday by NBC News is the public's first direct glimpse at t...
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We don't disagree with Jack that the filling in of details in the White Paper is important---and didn't mean to suggest otherwise. But the importance Jack assigns to this aspect of the White Paper is dec...
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There's certainly a lot to say about the DOJ white paper on targeted killings, much of which has been said already (and well) by others (see Raff's "Headlines and Commentary" post for links). At the ris...
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Michael Isikoff from NBC News has posted a copy of a 16-page DOJ "white paper" on the legality of targeted killings--especially vis-a-vis U.S. citizens. The memo itself is here; story here. I'm sure lot...
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Daniel Klaidman, author of the indispensible Kill or Capture (providing an inside glimpse into the evolution of the Obama administration's approach to counterterrorism in its first few years), today post...
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On All Things Considered this evening, NPR's Ari Shapiro ran this story on the closing of Amb.
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As is now familiar to everyone, rather difficult questions arise when we discuss the scope of the AUMF, the current scope of "al Qaeda," the meaning of "associated forces," and the circumstances under wh...
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January 28, 2013: The United States signs a status of forces agreement with Niger “that clears the way for a stepped-up American military presence on the edges of the conflict in neighboring Mali,” and t...
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The fourth installment in the Hoover Institution’s series of short essays on national security challenges for the Obama administration’s second term is now out.
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Jack and Ben have already flagged their entries in a Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law series on national security challenges for the second Obama term (Hoover is adding one essa...
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I'm not sure what to make of this:
As I've just explained, a UN Special Rapporteur has launched an investigation into the legality of US and Israeli drone strike practices. The Special Rapporteur's sta...