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Quinta Jurecic
Saturday, December 10, 2016, 9:42 AM

On Monday, the White House released a major report on the legal and policy frameworks guiding U.S. use of military force. Benjamin Wittes provided his thoughts on the report, and Chris Mirasola and Helen Klein Murillo gave us a detailed summary of the document itself.

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On Monday, the White House released a major report on the legal and policy frameworks guiding U.S. use of military force. Benjamin Wittes provided his thoughts on the report, and Chris Mirasola and Helen Klein Murillo gave us a detailed summary of the document itself. Quinta Jurecic flagged President Obama’s follow-up to the report in his speech at MacDill Air Force Base later this week.


The report contains new information on the administration’s decision to begin targeting al-Shabaab under the AUMF, which was the subject of this week’s Lawfare Podcast:



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Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.

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