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...

CNN now seems more confident of Pakistani participation in the operation.

CNN is reporting Bin Laden killed in a mansion near Islamabad, which would seem dramatically to reinforce perceptions that he has had some measure of protection or, at least, blind eye from Pakistani int...

This keeps getting more interesting.  A moment ago I raised the question how critics would respond if this proved to be a drone strike.  Now someone on CNN says it was a "human operation".  Same legal qu...

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?

[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...

...says CNN.

CNN reporting. President to speak momentarily.

Last week, amidst the flurry of interest occasioned by the wikileaks disclosure of GTMO detainee assessment documents, I was asked to join a group of folks offering opinions on the matter for Foreign Pol...

...but it is kind of sad, anyway, that some people are taking the opportunity of the Left's sliming of Paul Clement to begin attacking once again those Justice Department attorneys who in private practic...

Barton Gellman just published this lengthy profile of FBI Director Bob Mueller in Time. I haven't read it yet but will post thoughts when I do.

I have mixed feelings about this New York Times oped by the ACLU's Jameel Jaffer and Larry Siems of the Freedom to Write program at the PEN American Center, who are urging that government officials durin...

...that every non-government employee in the world can discuss what the Wikileaked documents say about Guantanamo detainees except their own habeas counsel--who remain gagged as a consequence of their ob...

I have recently blogged about two issues:  whether congressional authorization is required as a constitutional matter for U.S.

There is still no institution in American politics by which I feel more represented than I do by my former colleagues at the Washington Post editorial page. This editorial makes, in my view, all of the i...

NPR's Carrie Johnson is reporting that Attorney General Eric Holder has spoken out strongly on behalf of Paul Clement: To the list of prominent lawyers defending former Solicitor General Paul Clement's d...