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General McChrystal gets off script:

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that it remains the goal of U.S. troops to capture Osama bin Laden alive and “bring him to justice.”

The comment by Gen. Stanley McChrystal to reporters was in contrast to remarks made a day earlier by U.S. Attorney General Eric [...]

Personal

As promised, the Company has reached out and touched someone:

A drone strike last week in Pakistan apparently killed a top al Qaeda trainer who helped supervise December’s suicide bombing at a Central Intelligence Agency post in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said. The strike on a suspected bomb-making facility in Miram Shah killed [...]

Outing Spies

Much was made over the outing for political purposes of Saint Valerie Plame, the formerly covert CIA agent who was forced to leave CIA and pose for Vanity Fair magazine after her cover was blown by Washington pundit Robert Novak. L’affaire Plame was only one of many lost opportunities to see Karl Rove “frog marched” [...]

Lawfare

The Harvard Law Record weighs in on the advantages of drone-based warfare, among other things:

(With) UAVs being increasingly controlled by automated systems and operated from the comfort of a command center, the decision to release weapons can be made by an entire team, usually including a lawyer.  “The pilot is a mere [...]

Traveling with the General

Steven Pressfield hops a G5 to Afghanistan with Marine General James Mattis.

Part 1 of 4.

Good Guys vs Bad Guys

It’s easy to tell the difference between the two.

It’s all about body positioning.

Pack v Herd

Pack.

The Right to Counsel

I do not personally believe that a lawyer who had served as counsel for a Guantanamo detainee ought to be excluded from public office. After all John Adams defended Captain Thomas Preston, the officer in charge of the British patrol implicated in the Boston Massacre. It didn’t appear to hurt his career.

But Bill Burk and [...]

First Principles

The ACLU is ostensibly a group of American lawyers who concern themselves with American civil liberties. Why then is a Canadian lawyer for the ACLU concerning himself with the appropriate number of American soldiers who ought to expose themselves to death or  mutilation in the prosecution of stateless terrorists on foreign shores?

Jonathan (Mannes) said, for [...]

Saddam's Bomb

It looks like Saddam Hussein was well on his way to striking a deal with Pakistan’s A.Q. Khan for the Big One before his army got rolled up in 1991:

At the time of the 1990 offer, Iraq was embarked in a crash program to develop nuclear weapons in the face of a threatened U.S.-led attack [...]

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