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June 16, 2014
Military Operations
One Decade of Drone Strikes in Pakistan
In May 2002, Gen. John Keane, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, vowed: “We have broken their will and they are trying to establish another safe haven now in Pakistan...when the time is right,…
March 2, 2017
Heads of State and Government
The (Not-So) Peaceful Transition of Power: Trump’s Drone Strikes Outpace Obama
[Note: This post was updated to reflect additional strikes in Yemen on March 2, March 3, and March 6.] As a candidate, President Donald Trump was deeply misleading about the sorts of military oper…
December 1, 2016
Heads of State and Government
Drone Memos: A Conversation With Jameel Jaffer
This week, I spoke with Jameel Jaffer, inaugural director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. We discussed his new book, The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing, Secrecy, and th…
April 16, 2013
Drones
Transferring CIA Drone Strikes to the Pentagon
The main obstacle to acknowledging the scope, legality, and oversight of U.S. targeted killings beyond traditional or "hot" battlefields is the division of lead executive authority between the Joint …
March 5, 2013
United States
Who Is Ultimately Responsible for U.S. Drone Strikes?
An article today in the New York Times offered a new piece of evidence in the CIA’s nine-year drone strikes campaign in Pakistan. Declan Walsh reported that anonymous officials—“two senior U.S. offic…
