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Hello and welcome to the LawFair podcast, the special unwilling or unable edition. I'm Benjamin

Wittis, and this is the third of the three podcasts I recorded down at the Mill Ops Conference

in Singapore. This speech was given by Ashley Deeks, a former State Department legal

advisor's office attorney, who is now at Columbia and is heading to teach at UVA this

fall. Ashley, a sometime LawFair contributor, has recently written a lengthy article on

the unwilling or unable standard to standard the United States' sites as the legal basis

for its conduct of military operations against al-Qaeda forces in the sovereign territory

of other countries. As Ashley was either unwilling or unable to record a podcast interview

on the subject of her article, I, like U.S. forces, reserved the right to act unilaterally,

and I captured this audio of her speech on the subject.

I'm just speaking to you and to hear your questions. I guess this morning we heard basically

a general overview of the number of issues at the 10,000-foot level. What I'm hoping to

do here this afternoon in the CES dislike is to take us down to more of a 500-foot level

to talk about a question that the U.S. government at least has been wrestling some with and other

states, I think perhaps as well. So on May 2nd of 2011, as many of you know, U.S. forces

entered Pakistan to capture or killed in London. And the U.S. appears to have done so without

the consent of the government of Pakistan, which objected to quote the unauthorized unilaterally

action of the U.S. government. Now, Canada Obama, while he was running for office in 2007,

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