CIA officials fear drone killings may face prosecution like interrogation abuses
Evidence
If the position adopted by Anderson is instructive, that is because it reveals not only the legal fragility of this policy but also the growing disquiet assailing some of its agents. “The middle officials of the CIA in my estimation have doubts about that now—they see the whole activity moving the way that detention and interrogation did after 9/11,” writes Anderson. “The advocacy folks would like to make Predator drone attacks as legally uncertain as detention and interrogation—and indications, at least in my experience, are that it does not take much uncertainty about what the future might hold in the way of [Eric] Holder-style announcements, the possibility of indictments or arrests in Spain or other jurisdictions, and all that stretching into a long and unknown future, to induce changes in behavior by US personnel.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 554
Categorization
- QUESTION: What actually happened with Holder-era prosecutorial signals and foreign-jurisdiction indictments against drone program officials?
- XREF: Parallels the post-9/11 legal reckoning over detention and interrogation, a key analogue for drone impunity. — connects to: Military officers feared drone manhunting would repeat the Vietnam Phoenix Program’s murder and torture