The drone memos : targeted killing, secrecy, and the law

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Label

The drone memos : targeted killing, secrecy, and the law

Title remainder

targeted killing, secrecy, and the law

Statement of responsibility

edited and introduced by Jameel Jaffer

Contributor

• Jaffer, Jameel

Editor

• Jaffer, Jameel

Subject

• Targeted killing -- United States
• Terrorism -- Prevention | Law and legislation -- United States
• Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (International law)
• War and emergency powers -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

Collects and explains the legal documents underlying the Obama administration's hugely controversial program of remote-control assassination. Jameel Jaffer led the ACLU legal team that sued for the release of these documents. In The Drone Memos, he compiles the legal memos, white papers, and government speeches that, taken together, ratified and even expanded the Bush administration's "war on terror"

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

344.7305/32517

Index

no index present

LC call number

KF7225

LC item number

.D76 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography