There is an increasing amount of talk about judicial review for at least some decisions to place specific persons on targeting lists for the use of lethal force outside of a combat zone (drones are not t...

Amid the flurry of writing about the White Paper’s approach to “imminence” – an important conversation, to be sure – little attention has been paid to a paragraph in the White Paper that seems to establi...

While the brouhaha over the White Paper rages, Sarah Goodyear writes in The Atlantic Cities about a novel concept from one Asher J. Kohn which might, in the near future, moot the whole discussion: "Archi...

The central substantive issue, legally and morally, in the administration's Targeted Killing White Paper is how the concept of an "imminent threat" should be understood. This is where much of the debate ...

We don't disagree with Jack that the filling in of details in the White Paper is important---and didn't mean to suggest otherwise. But the importance Jack assigns to this aspect of the White Paper is dec...

There's certainly a lot to say about the DOJ white paper on targeted killings, much of which has been said already (and well) by others (see Raff's "Headlines and Commentary" post for links).  At the ris...

Daniel Klaidman, author of the indispensible Kill or Capture (providing an inside glimpse into the evolution of the Obama administration's approach to counterterrorism in its first few years), today post...

I’d like to briefly address two articles in the news today on U.S.

Over at Secrecy News, Steve Aftergood has posted a new Congressional Research Service report entitled, "Integration of Drones into Domestic Airspace: Selected Legal Issues." The summary of the report, by...

The New York Times has this long article about the Noor Khan lawsuit in Britain, in which the son of a man killed in a drone strike in Pakistan has sued the British Foreign Secretary for information abou...