This article by Thomas Darnstädt, published online by Der Speigel, is getting a lot of attention today.  The thrust of the piece is captured by the tagline at the top: "Is this what justice looks like?

This morning I read Curt's thoughtful piece reflecting on the news of Osama bin Laden's death and how the news was received in various demonstrations across the country. I respectfully disagreed with som...

After giving myself a day to reflect on Bin Laden’s death, here are a few thoughts that occurred to me. First, the killing of Bin Laden is obviously a significant development in the conflict with Al Qae...

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...

David Ignatius, who typically has great sources in the CIA, writes: The trail that led to bin Laden’s hideout in the town of Abbottabad, about 75 miles north of Islamabad, began between 2002 and 2004 wit...

[See here for an updated analysis, after reading the original below] In the summer of 2009, the Wall Street Journal broke a story about (i) a never-consummated CIA plan to develop a capacity to use smal...

...albeit less directly than the AP, that some of the key the initial strands of intelligence came out of the CIA system. The Times reports: Last night, an official said that “detainees” had identified a...

...that, as I speculated this morning, the original leads for what became the Bin Laden operation developed in the CIA's secret prison's program.

Watching CNN last night, I was astounded to hear Peter Bergen assert that the death of UBL means the end of the war on terrorism (anyone have this on video?).  That is an extraordinary overstatement, as ...

I recommend that Lawfare readers spend some time absorbing the entirety of this press briefing last night by "senior administration officials." In particular, the following passage stands out and suggest...