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Reader Commentary on Koh and Public Argumentation
Michael Montgomery, an active duty Navy Judge Advocate commenting in his personal capacity, writes in the following thoughts regarding my post earlier today about Harold Koh's absence from the public deb... -
Ken Anderson on Harold Koh
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Lawfare book review editor Ken Anderson makes this point about State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh's absence from the current public discussions of the legality of th... -
Text of Al Qaeda's Statement on Bin Laden's Death
CNN has posted the English text of the Al Qaeda statement on Osama Bin Laden's death. It's worth a read. The Arabic original is available here. -
Waxman on National Security Federalism, Bellinger and Padmanabhan on Detention and Challenges to the Geneva Framework
Matt Waxman (Columbia) has a terrific paper, National Security Federalism in the Age of Terror, forthcoming in Stanford Law Review. Here is the abstract: National security law scholarship tends to focus... -
Deeks Gets It Right on Pakistani Sovereignty and the UBL Operation
Ashley Deeks (formerly from State Department L (political-military affairs), currently a fellow at Columbia) has posted "Pakistan's Sovereignty and the Killing of Osama bin Laden." Ashley is as sharp as... -
Drone Strikes Resume In North Waziristan
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... -
Tipping Off Zawahiri
Why on earth would the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee say this? Other gleanings from the roughly 100 pieces of computer gear seized Sunday included possible leads on the whereabouts of othe... -
Meanwhile in Yemen...the Use of Lethal Force Against AQAP in Yemen Continues
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... -
Gabor Rona on the Legality of the Bin Laden Operation
Gabor Rona of Human Rights first has this piece on the legality of the Bin Laden operation. While Gabor is more tentative in his conclusion than I am, I largely agree with this analysis, including his an... -
The UBL Operation as a Precedent for Indian Interventions in Pakistan
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... -
Meanwhile, in Mexico...
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. ... -
Ken Anderson on Whether IHL Requires an Invitation to Surrender in the Context of an Attack Against a Lawful Target
Ken Anderson (Lawfare's intrepid book review editor, among many other titles) has been kind enough to permit me to post this passage from an email exchange we had earlier today. It makes a point that I ...
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