The Obama administration’s top lawyers have lately been engaged in a public relations blitz advocating the legality and wisdom of targeted killing through drone warfare. Their speeches have shed light on important aspects of the government’s reasoning, such as its reliance under domestic law on the post-Sept. 11, 2001, Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), rather than the president’s constitutional authority to repel imminent attacks.
Since the AUMF does not place any geographic restrictions on the president’s ability to “use all necessary and appropriate force,” the administration has emphatically stated that our “war” with al-Queda and its associated forces extends beyond the “hot battlefield” of Afghanistan into Pakistan, Yemen and potentially elsewhere.
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