Drone strikes against al Qaeda lack oversight over threat assessment

Evidence

After the attacks of September 11, Congress granted presidents the authority to take military action against al Qaeda sanctuaries, wherever they were. This legal authorization led to an expanding covert campaign using remote-controlled drones (Currier, 2013). Targeted killings of al Qaeda militants have been conducted from within the United States and from secret bases abroad in at least five countries. … The moral problem of civilian killings in drone strikes also has arisen. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2432

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to vault claims about how states routinize killing through legal authorization and remote technology — the moral-distancing mechanism Bandura details elsewhere (euphemism/diffusion of responsibility).
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2432