"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 ...

A senior administration lawyer involved in national security issues writes in with the following: I read the commentary by He Who Must Not Be Named On This Blog on the killing of Aulaqi, and while I unde...

A corollary to Bobby's second point in this post is that it is not enough to say the words "due process" by way of denouncing the Al Aulaqi strike, as though those words represent a discussion-ending arg...

In the flurry of al-Awlaki coverage today, there are two points that I think are particularly worthy of attention. First, does this show that the U.S.

Over at Salon.com, He Who Must Not Be Named on This Blog is upset by the fact that what he terms the "the due process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality."

Here's the New York Times coverage, the Washington Post story, and the coverage on CBS News.

On Tuesday, lawyers for Abdulrahman Abdou Abou Alghaith Suleiman filed this letter with the Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  The letter replies to an ear...