Charlie Savage’s Twitter Archive—№ 12,087

@marty_lederman @jacklgoldsmith Cynically, it's more that DOD was pounding the Shabab more and more anyway, and NSC decided to regularize the legal basis for what was happening anyway as part of wrapping up unfinished business at the end of the administration. nytimes.com/2016/03/15/us/politics/is-the-us-now-at-war-with-the-shabab-not-exactly.html