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The Drone Memos: Target Killing, Secrecy, and the Law

by Jameel Jaffer

In the long response to 9/11, the US government initiated a deeply controversial policy of “targeted killing”―the extrajudicial execution of suspected terrorists and militants, typically via drones. A remarkable effort was made to legitimize this practice; one that most human rights experts agree is illegal and that the United States has historically condemn

Publisher

The New Press

Publication date

2016

Format

Print edition

Pages

328

ISBN

9781620972595