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Michael Hirsh (National Journal) has a very interesting piece today at the Atlantic (online that is, not sure if this is going into print as well). Here's a key slice of it:
Obama has also demonstrated ...
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Charlie Savage has the goods this morning regarding the administration's potential responses to the looming expiration of the 60-day WPR clock in connection with the war in Libya. It's a must-read piece...
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Josh Rogin reports a cryptic comment from Senators Kerry and McCain with respect to the looming expiration of the WPR's 60-day clock. Here is Kerry:
"I'm not hearing from my colleagues that they feel the...
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This press release story in the Miami Herald announces that the British advocacy group, Reprieve, is in the midst of developing a litigation strategy designed to stop the United States from conducting dr...
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As we’ve noted on this blog previously (here and here), continued U.S.
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The House Armed Services Committee just released the Chairman's mark of the National Defense Authorization bill. I have not looked at it yet, but it apparently contains new language on detention and AUMF...
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Benjamin Kleinerman, author of The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power (a truly excellent book, by the way, about which I have been meaning to post thoughts), wrote in over ...
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I noted yesterday that the United States may have resumed using lethal force against AQAP targets in Yemen. Now, it appears, drone strikes seem also to have resumed in North Waziristan, in this case pos...
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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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Alfredo Corchado of the Dallas Morning-News has an article that will be of interest to anyone trying to come to grips with whether a state of armed conflict can be said to exist in some areas of Mexico. ...
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Director Panetta appeared on PBS Newshour yesterday, and spoke to the question of whether this was a situation in which SEAL Team Six was merely to use force as a last resort in self-defense. As Ben not...