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30 Jan 2012, 7:58 am by Raffaela Wakeman
Eric Schmitt and Michael Schmidt write in the New York Times that the drones keeping watch in Iraq are less than welcome these days, despite their being operated by the State Department, not the military. [read post]
26 Oct 2015, 4:25 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
 Sabger and Eric Schmitt, NYT: “Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near the vital undersea cables that carry almost all global Internet communications, raising concerns among some American military and intelligence officials that the Russians might be planning to attack those lines in times of tension or conflict. [read post]
22 Nov 2014, 3:54 am by Jack Goldsmith
Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt report: President Obama decided in recent weeks to authorize a more expansive mission for the military in Afghanistan in 2015 than originally planned, a move that ensures American troops will have a direct role in fighting in the war-ravaged country for at least another year. [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 12:07 pm by The Book Review Editor
   Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker are two consummate national security reporters at the New York Times and their approach to this daunting subject is refreshing and important. [read post]
8 Aug 2011, 7:50 am by Raffaela Wakeman
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]
5 Oct 2013, 1:37 pm by Wells Bennett
 The piece, by Nicholas Kulish and Eric Schmitt, begins: NAIROBI, Kenya — A Navy SEAL team seized a senior leader of the Shabab militant group from his seaside villa in the Somali town of Baraawe on Saturday, American officials said, in response to a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall for which the group had claimed responsibility. [read post]
3 Dec 2016, 10:30 am by Quinta Jurecic
Earlier this week, the New York Times published a story by Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt, and Mark Mazzetti informing us that the Obama administration had changed its interpretation of the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force to more broadly cover the use of force against al-Shabaab, expanding its previous reading of the AUMF as only authorizing force against members of al-Shabaab individually linked to al-Qaeda. [read post]
5 Oct 2013, 1:37 pm by Wells Bennett
 The piece, by Nicholas Kulish and Eric Schmitt, begins: NAIROBI, Kenya — A Navy SEAL team targeted a senior leader of the Shabab militant group in a raid on his seaside villa in the Somali town of Baraawe on Saturday, American officials said, in response to a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall for which the group had claimed responsibility. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
“Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican, blames China for letting the coronavirus spread. [read post]
6 Dec 2019, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt this week released a letter (full text) which he sent on Dec. 3 to the superintendent of the Cameron, Missouri School District supporting high school football coaches against charges in a letter (full text) from the Freedom From Religion Foundation . [read post]
11 Sep 2008, 10:20 am
The lead story in today's New York Times by Eric Schmitt and Mark Mazettti reports as follows:President Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the firsttime allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaultsinside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government,according to senior American officials.* * * *The Central Intelligence Agency has for several years fired missiles atmilitants inside Pakistan from remotely piloted Predator… [read post]
20 Dec 2014, 6:25 pm by Jack Goldsmith
David Sanger, Nicole Perlroth, and Eric Schmitt have a must-read NYT story on USG thinking about a response to the Sony hack, allegedly carried by the North Korean government. [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 7:56 am by Russell, Krafft & Gruber, LLP
Eric Schmitt became the first officer in Lancaster County to save someone from a heroin overdose through the use of Narcan. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 5:37 pm by Kenneth Anderson
 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]
20 Dec 2011, 7:05 am by Kenneth Anderson
(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]
1 Jun 2014, 10:00 am by Ashley Deeks
But as Eric Schmitt at the Times notes, the U.S. government for years has been pursuing the strategy of helping to train up foreign militaries—particularly elite counter-terrorism forces—both so that those forces can better address their own domestic security challenges and so that those forces can help the U.S. [read post]
14 Dec 2016, 10:01 am by Quinta Jurecic
A decade later, he still spoke for something in the zeitgeist, to the point where Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule could mischievously declare their intellectual allegiance not to James Madison but to Schmitt in their volume in defense of expansive executive power. [read post]