U.S. Had Lawyers Ready for Bin LadenS  President Obama had "two
teams of specialists" at the ready after the Osama Bin Laden
mission: "One to bury Bin Laden if he was killed, and a second
composed of lawyers, interrogators and translators in case he
was captured alive." (Or so "senior officials" tell The New York
Times.) If he had been captured alive, he'd have been taken, in
order "to preclude battles over jurisdiction," to a Navy ship —
the U.S.S. Carl Vinson, most likely — where he would have been
interrogated. (Even so, "the mission," officials say, "was
always weighted toward killing.") The question remains: Did the
interrogators have six-packs? Was there a dog with the lawyers?
Did it have titanium teeth? Because otherwise, seriously, bo-
ring. [NYT; image via AP]