AFP
September 17, 2011
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AFP) – A top US anti-terror advisor Friday hinted at the debate inside the White House over legal constraints on US operations striking at Al-Qaeda suspects in places like Yemen and Somalia.
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John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s top advisor for counterterrorism and homeland security, was also using a speech to criticize attempts by some lawmakers to prevent civilian courts dealing with terror suspects.
Brennan’s speech at Harvard Law School later Friday laid out the legal questions surrounding US counterterrorism operations, especially the widening geographical spread of US military strikes against extremists.
“The United States does not view our authority to use military force against Al-Qaeda as being restricted solely to ‘hot’ battlefields like Afghanistan,” Brennan said in excerpts of his remarks.
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