Jessica Stern has this article over at Daily Beast describing her reactions to Usama bin Laden's death. My sincere apologies for posting this a day late, but it's very much still worth a read. Here's an ...

In a recent post, Bobby raised the question of what impact, if any, Bin Laden’s death would have on the legal effect of the Authorization for Use of Military Force, or “AUMF.”  As I noted in a post earli...

Over at Opinio Juris, Deborah Pearlstein says that "it’s disheartening to see conversation already turning to old, old debates about interrogation." Pearlstein is upset because certain people (including ...

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...

It is better to be lucky than to be good, and we might well find out here that President Obama has lucked into this one. But it's worth pausing for a moment over the possibility that a significant strate...

CNN now seems more confident of Pakistani participation in the operation.