The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing, Secrecy, and the Law by Jameel Jaffer

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The Drone Memos collects for the first time the legal and policy documents underlying the U.S. government’s deeply controversial practice of ‘targeted killing’ – the extrajudicial killing of suspected terrorists and militants, typically using remotely piloted aircraft or ‘drones’. The documents together constitute a remarkable effort to legitimize a practice that most human rights experts consider to be unlawful and that the United States has historically condemned.

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