“A trenchant summation” and analysis of the legal rationales
behind the US drone policy of targeted killing of suspected
terrorists, including US citizens (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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 condemned. In The Drone Memos, civil rights lawyer
Jameel Jaffer presents and assesses the legal memos and policy
documents that enabled the Obama administration to put this program
into action. In a lucid and provocative introduction, Jaffer, who led
the ACLU legal team that secured the release of many of the documents,
evaluates the drone memos in light of domestic and international law.
He connects the documents’ legal abstractions to the real-world
violence they allow, and makes the case that we are trading core
principles of democracy and human rights for the illusion of security.
“A careful study of a secretive counterterrorism infrastructure
capable of sustaining endless, orderless war, this book is profoundly
necessary.” —Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The
Nation
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ISBN
9781620972601
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
The New Press (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok