Nonstate terrorism operates outside any legal framework governing targeted killing

Evidence

Although the threats to the United States are real, there is no clear legal framework governing national protection against foreign terrorists groups. They are nonstate actors with no national borders. Nor are they controllable when they enjoy safe haven in failed states or in sovereign nations with tribal regions sympathetic to their ideology. The targeted killings abroad of American citizens turned jihadists raises serious questions about the constitutionality of such actions. Because the rules governing targeted killings were cloaked in classified secrecy, under what review they were carried out is unclear. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 466

Categorization

• XREF: The absence of a legal framework and classificatory secrecy is a structural precondition that lets moral disengagement operate — killing citizens without review because categories for them don’t exist. — connects to: No legal framework governs targeted killings of terror groups
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 466