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DOD and NATO Should Undertake Libya Targeting Review to Establish State Practice of Lawful Targeting
20 Dec 2011, 7:05 am
(Kenneth Anderson) CJ Chivers and Eric Schmitt have a lengthy and important front-page story in this past Sunday’s New York Times detailing scores of instances of civilian collateral damage from NATO air operations in the Libya fighting. [read post]
11 Nov 2011, 6:12 am
Co. v Schmitt, 265 AD2d 299, 300 [internal quotation marks omitted]). [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 7:48 am
Here is what I write on this issue in my forthcoming paper on the legal aspects of military-intelligence convergence: According to Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of the New York Times, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates during his tenure had long been concerned by the prospect of kinetic operations undertaken without presidential pre-approval …. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 4:48 am
Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of the NYT report that the Obama administration considered using offensive cyber-weapons in the war in Libya, but in the end did not use them. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 7:25 am
Eric Schmitt at the New York Times also covers President Obama’s order. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 8:06 am
There is now a growing conviction among US security analysts that three groups across northern Africa - Somalia's al-Shabaab, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb in the north (possibly including Libya), and Boko Haram in Nigeria - are beginning to coordinate their actions and knowledge (see Thom Shanker & Eric Schmitt, “U.S. sees big threat in 3 African groups”, New York Times, 16 September 2011). [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 8:06 am
There is now a growing conviction among US security analysts that three groups across northern Africa - Somalia's al-Shabaab, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb in the north (possibly including Libya), and Boko Haram in Nigeria - are beginning to coordinate their actions and knowledge (see Thom Shanker & Eric Schmitt, “U.S. sees big threat in 3 African groups”, New York Times, 16 September 2011). [read post]
8 Aug 2011, 7:50 am
Sneek Peak: The New York Times this weekend published this adaptation of Eric Schmitt’s and Thom Shanker’s forthcoming book, “Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda. [read post]
24 Jul 2011, 8:09 pm
Our latter-day Carl Schmitts, Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule, are urging to embrace this last Schmittian innovation. [read post]
23 Jul 2011, 4:46 am
(American history, that is to say -- in contrast with their "retail[ing] a kinder, gentler Carl Schmitt," which if done expressly is not the most optimal way to secure prominent billing in the Times.) [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 8:50 pm
On the normative side, Eric and Adrian retail a kinder, gentler Carl Schmitt: We should not worry about Presidents' unilaterally claiming powers to (for instance) raise the debt limit, because they will be adequately cabined by politics. [read post]
9 Jul 2011, 9:24 am
Into this debate, enter Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule to suggest that the whole notion of the executive administration being in any meaningful sense bound by the law is wrong. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 7:55 am
Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt’s New York Times article is here, and the Washington Post’s report is here. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 8:47 am
The New York Times’ Eric Lichtbau and Eric Schmitt focus on the DOJ’s decision to close the other inquiries (numbering 99). [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 9:04 am
Durham had been appointed by Attorney General Eric Holder in August 2009 to initially review nearly a dozen cases of alleged detainee mistreatment. [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 7:58 am
It is possible, for example, that whatever exord (execute order) is relevant to JSOC operations in Yemen specifies host-state consent as a condition precedent for some if not all operations, whereas whatever covert action finding is relevant to CIA operations in Yemen does not (if the exord/finding distinction is not a familiar one to you, you might want to see this 2004 NYT report by Eric Schmitt and Mark Mazzetti for an overview of the idea of distinct authorizing… [read post]
12 Jun 2011, 3:46 pm
Eric Schmitt at the June 7 hearing. [read post]
16 May 2011, 8:58 am
What there will be is a blurring of the roles between the military and agencies such as the CIA; an assumption of paramilitary roles by intelligence agencies; and a deployment of the military's special forces in “taking out” threats whenever and wherever they arise (see Mark Mazzetti & Eric Schmitt, “Obama's Pentagon and C.I.A. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 8:31 am
Eric A. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 5:37 pm
If that is so, however, I quite agree with Professor Mansfield that the book isn’t really about Schmitt at all; indeed, least of all about Schmitt. [read post]
