The New York Times describes how legal reasoning works in the
Obama administration. It goes like this: the end justifies the
means.    But Barron and Lederman realized that they had to
‘evolve’.     And evolve they did.  The rest, as they say, is
history. In their own defense they believe they’ve managed to
avoid the intellectual excesses of the Bush Doctrine. But as a
practical matter, they gave the Obama administration far more
power than was used under than under President Bush’s “sweeping”
arrogation. The Washington Post published a graphic showing the
drone activity under President Obama.  Permanent War that is
Non-War  What is truly remarkable about this graph is not only
how the attacks have spiked, but that they occur in places where
military action has not been formally authorized by Congress.
Congress, you may remember, once had the power the declare war
according to a ‘hundred year old document that nobody reads any
more’. That was before clever lawyers figured out that cases
involving children in