Targeted drone killings operate without a clear legal framework
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
Category: Factual Claims
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: where does ‘no clear legal framework’ stand today, and did anyone establish review rules after the al-Awlaki case?
Related
- Nonstate terrorism operates outside any legal framework governing targeted killing (similarity 0.86)
- Drone strikes against al Qaeda lack oversight over threat assessment (similarity 0.83)
- Drone killings raise both oversight and civilian-casualty objections (similarity 0.82)