I'm not sure what to make of this: As I've just explained, a UN Special Rapporteur has launched an investigation into the legality of US and Israeli drone strike practices.  The Special Rapporteur's sta...

[Update - I've clarified some points below, at the bottom, in response to reader feedback] Ben Emmerson QC is a British human rights law specialist who currently serves as the UN Human Rights Council's ...

Yesterday, the American Security Project (ASP) held a lunch event on drones. The discussion, between ASP's CEO Stephen Cheney, ASP Fellow Joshua Foust, Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First, and me was a ...

Somehow, I doubt the FAA would mind these drones over D.C. airspace. Inauguration day drone protest. Hat tip: Josh Gerstein

The Post ran an important story on Saturday, building on its earlier reporting concerning the development of a "disposition matrix" and other tools for the management of the counterterrorism enterprise. ...

The American Society of International Law has released a new "ASIL Insight" on law applicable to autonomous weapon systems.  (ASIL Insights are short, descriptive pieces on topical issues meant as non-te...

CNN is reporting that TSA has announced the removal of all Rapiscan X-ray backscatter airport machines, to be accom

The Sunday NYT story on the French intervention in Mali noted that the United States had long trained Mali forces but had also long believed that “a Western assault on the Islamist stronghold could rally...

John Brennan, nominated by President Obama to become the next CIA director, will apparently face some tough questioning from Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) at his Senate confirmation hearings (reportedly set f...

Micah Zenko of the Council on Foreign Relations has just published this important report on U.S. drones policy. I disagree with Zenko on some aspects of it, but for now I want to summarize several of his...

Back in October, I wrote about the claim in this Washington Post story that John Brennan supports shifting the CIA's operations involving the use of lethal force over to the military.  Now that he is abo...

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