Drone killings raise both oversight and civilian-casualty objections

Evidence

Legal justifications for the drone airstrikes argue that international law grants nations the right to self-defense and that al Qaeda militants pose an imminent threat to the nation. Opponents have criticized the use of drones because it is a covert operation with no oversight of the assessment of threat and the process by which individuals are judged to be plotting against the United States. The moral problem of civilian killings in drone strikes also has arisen. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2432