This press release story in the Miami Herald announces that the British advocacy group, Reprieve, is in the midst of developing a litigation strategy designed to stop the United States from conducting dr...

A reader writes in to point out that, in my earlier post, I have given away the store on behalf of the administration--and, what's worse, on matters on which I wholeheartedly agree with the administration.

I have now had a chance to read through House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon's new detention and AUMF language, released yesterday as part of the Chairman's mark of the National Defense Authorizatio...

As we’ve noted on this blog previously (here and here), continued U.S.

The House Armed Services Committee just released the Chairman's mark of the National Defense Authorization bill. I have not looked at it yet, but it apparently contains new language on detention and AUMF...

Benjamin Kleinerman, author of The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power (a truly excellent book, by the way, about which I have been meaning to post thoughts), wrote in over ...

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...

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...

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...

Director Panetta appeared on PBS Newshour yesterday, and spoke to the question of whether this was a situation in which SEAL Team Six was merely to use force as a last resort in self-defense.  As Ben not...