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The Process of Transferring Drone Operations from the CIA to the Pentagon: Slow Track, Just Stalled, or Terminal?

On Tuesday evening, Foreign Policy published an exclusive report, with a headline suggesting that the administration has terminated the idea of transferring drone operations from…
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Spy v. Spy?: The coming push to create an EU spy agency to counteract the NSA

In an interview on Monday, a senior EU official, Commissioner of Justice Viviane Reding unveiled, in broad brushstrokes, a proposal to create a spy agency to counteract the NSA.…
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Report to the General Assembly on Armed Drones and the Right to Life (or drones should follow the law, not the other way around)

[Editorial note: Last week, the United Nations discussed two major reports on drones. Just Security’s coverage included posts by Philip Alston, Ryan Goodman (here, here), Kevin…
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Invented (and Real) Criticisms of the Human Rights Watch Report on Targeted Killings in Yemen

The major reports by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) on targeted killings make valuable contributions to public debate (see Sarah Knuckey’s Guide to the…
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Live Feed — UN Panel on Drones and the Law [Update: now concluded]

Included on the UN Panel is Just Security’s Sarah Knuckey. [For background on the UN drone reports, see Sarah Knuckey‘s earlier post on the drone report by Christof…
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Live Feed of UN Debate on Drones [Update: Debate has now concluded]

[UPDATE:  The UN debate on the drones reports has now concluded.  A video of the debate is included below and begins at the 57:30 mark] [For background on the UN drone reports,…
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IHL, Transparency, and the Heyns’ UN Drones Report

In his critique of Christof Heyns’ new UN report on the right to life in the context of lethal drone strikes, Eric Jensen erects two straw men and then proceeds to knock them…
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The Report of the UN Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial Executions: Law or Advocacy?

As has already been discussed in several postings, the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions has been published and deserves close attention.  To the…
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The Problematic “Belonging To” Analogy: A Response to Goodman

[Editor’s note: Ryan Goodman replies to Professor Heller in a subsequent post.] In a recent post here at Just Security, Ryan Goodman offered a novel – and characteristically…
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Amnesty International’s Drone Strike Report: Once more into the lex lata/ferenda breach?

[Editor’s Note: The post below is part of an exchange between Naureen Shah and Chris Jenks on the recently released reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights…
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When Will the US Government Commit to Investigating Unlawful Drone Strike Deaths?

[Editor’s Note: The post below is part of an exchange between Naureen Shah and Chris Jenks on the recently released reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch…
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Human Rights Groups Release Investigation Reports into US Targeted Killings: A Guide to the Issues

Today, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) released two detailed studies of US targeted killings in Yemen and Pakistan, putting forward specific evidence of…
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