General supervision was defined by Soviet writers on administrative law as meaning supervision by the procurators over legality in administration.
It is believed to be the first time the DC appeals court has ever heard a case applying the Freedom of Information Act to the OLC, a Justice Department body that assesses the legality of administration policies – a remarkable rarity considering that Washington is the venue for many national-security cases under the Freedom of Information Act.
In addition to the legality, the administration also had to consider the danger of intervention by the Soviet Union or the People's Republic of China if United Nations forces approached their borders.
If you hear me say something, you can be absolutely sure that I believe it, and that's true whether I'm speaking about the U.S. policy toward the International Criminal Court, the legality of the administration's positions on drones, the lawfulness of the military operation against bin Laden, or the administration's position on war powers in Libya.
It's unclear why the White House couldn't have provided reporters with the unclassified white paper earlier, given long-running questions about the legality of the administration's drone program and and a media debate that's heated up in recent weeks, rather than only addressing the paper after a news organization publishes it.
Without considering its legality, EPO doping administration has the potential of correcting some misregulations in iron metabolism of athletes.
As the State Department legal adviser, Mr. Koh became a prominent defender of the legality of the Obama administration's national security policies, including drone strikes and the operation in which American commandos entered Pakistan and killed the Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
The act figured in debates over the legality of the Bush administration's counterterrorism efforts after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The constitutional "legality" of the present Administration, which was elected for a 4-year term that will end in the fall of 1971, is still acknowledged, but such legality is not held as sacronsanct as it was a few months ago.
Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, meanwhile, said on Wednesday that he intended to try to block the nomination of John O. Brennan, Mr. Obama's choice to be director of the C.I.A., until Mr. Brennan provides answers to questions he had on the scope and legality of the Obama administration's drone operations.
