How Lawyers Sign Off On Drone Attacks -- Pratap Chatterjee, The GuardianStrict protocols supposedly govern conduct of Obama's secret unmanned air war, but poor intelligence still causes lethal errors.
To kill or not to kill? How does the Pentagon decide that they have the legal right to assassinate an alleged insurgent or terrorist in Afghanistan or Iraq?
These questions gained a new urgency this week, as the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the Central Intelligence Agency is about to launch a secret new campaign to "carry out aggressive drone strikes" in Yemen modelled on the alleged existing assassination programme in Pakistan. The WSJ report noted that "the CIA operates under different legal restrictions, giving the administration a freer hand to carry out strikes."
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My Comment: There is a lot of detailed information in this post on how America's drone war is conducted. Read it all.
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