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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
@rgoodlaw
Jun 19, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Pompeo "privately delivered warnings intended for Iranian leaders that any attack by Tehran or its proxies resulting in the death of even one American service member will generate a military counterattack." WaPo

Several legal problems with that position. Here's two of them...1/3
Recommended reading that shows legal flaws in Bolton-Pompeo idea that the US can attack Iran in response to actions taken by Tehran's "proxies:"

Analysis by former Defense Department special counsel and @YaleLawSch professor @oonahathaway:

justsecurity.org/64372/john-bol… 2/3
Recommended reading that shows what's legally wrong with Pompeo's idea that US could militarily counterattack Iran for any use of force by Iran or its "proxies" that results in the death of even one US service member:

3/3
P.S. here’s the link to the great scoop by @missy_ryan @GregJaffe @John_Hudson (which may have been drowned out in part by overlapping news on Acting SecDef’s departure).

washingtonpost.com/world/national…

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Oct 2
“This is not stretching the envelope,” Geoffrey Corn said. “This is shredding it."

On Administration's confidential note to Congress

Completely right

Drug cartels not = "armed conflict"
People killed are civilians

Corn is retired JAG, Army's former law-of-war senior adviser Image
2/ source:

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

A notice calls the people the U.S. military recently killed on suspicion of drug smuggling “unlawful combatants.”

By @charlie_savage @EricSchmittNYT
nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/…
@charlie_savage @EricSchmittNYT 3/ "The administration has also stressed that about 100,000 Americans annually die from overdoses.

However, the focus of the ..attacks has been boats from Venezuela. The surge of overdose deaths...has been driven by fentanyl that drug trafficking experts say comes from Mexico" Image
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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
Sep 25
Comey's testimony in 2020

On left:

In hearing, Senator Cruz erroneously claimed McCabe had said Comey "directly authorized" leak to press. Comey denied that.

On right:

McCabe did not say Comey authorized the leak (source: Inspector General Report, on which Cruz relies) Image
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2/ Grassley's question to Comey in 2017 focused on authorization.

(In 2020, Comey testified that he stands by his 2017 testimony.)

So, Comey should be able to stand on that as being truthful and consistent with McCabe's account.

Grassley: "have you ever authorized..."⤵️ Image
3/ Also note the discrepancy in Cruz's letter to DOJ making criminal referral.

On left:

At hearing, Cruz asked Comey whether he was aware AND authorized the leak

On right:

Cruz letter to DOJ falsely frames it as Comey testifying he NEITHER was aware NOR authorized the leak. Image
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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
Sep 15
With terrific team, I just published large study looking at all court cases involving the Trump administration.

Shows basis for courts no longer giving a so-called "presumption of regularity" (a legal doctrine involving a strong benefit of the doubt) to the administration.
🧵 Image
2/ source

The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation
justsecurity.org/120547/presump…
3/ We document over 15 cases in which judges have explicitly found the administration violated a court order.

Below are some of the very-strong statements by judges.
justsecurity.org/120547/presump…Image
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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
Sep 3
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat.

Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.

Read this expert analysis⤵️ Image
2/ The author of the expert analysis worked at the State Department under several administrations with these types of use of force issues as his portfolio.

justsecurity.org/119982/legal-i…
3/ The best line of argument for the administration might be that the law of armed conflict somehow applies.

But if so (and it doesn't), that means the US War Crimes Act applies too, including the prohibition on murder.

Finucane spells out that implication here: Image
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Aug 24
Big 1: Everyone should be held to the same standard of accountability - regardless of party.

Big 2: Imperative to release all the Epstein files to get to the bottom of this.

3: Key points about Clinton-Maxwell timeline ... (see thread)

🧵1/
cnn.com/2025/08/24/pol…
2/ Most remarkable part of @KFILE report:

September 2013: Maxwell is "honored guest at the prestigious Clinton Global Initiative conference."

By then she was notorious for alleged involvement in grotesque sexual crimes with Epstein.

cnn.com/2025/08/24/pol…
@KFILE 3/ How notorious?

Several civil lawsuits had named Ghislaine Maxwell as a primary Epstein co-conspirator (starting in 2009)

Timeline I published this week.⤵️

justsecurity.org/119137/timelin…
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Aug 20
1/ Powerful interview

Former top official of the National Guard Major Gen. Randy E. Manner

Listen to this excerpt of it.

- Our Guard is not trained for this
- "Negatively impacts military readiness"
- Being as "political props"
2 "This is ... changing the entire context of the way that the average citizens in these cities are going to start viewing ... our military...
We should not have military on our streets, in our American cities. It is absolutely the way that dictatorships run, not democracies."
3

Q: "Joint Task Force ... said that all service members deployed will get an initial briefing on the mission and operational environment, and that prepares them. Is that enough?

General Manner: "No, absolutely not. ... This is a very potentially dangerous situation."
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