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...