Is Obama’s Drone Program Legal? Former Senior CIA Lawyer Isn’t Saying.

Memoirs often offer former senior US government officials an outlet to comment on programs about which they largely were silent while in office. When it comes to the legality of the Obama administration’s armed-drone program, such candor is needed. But, in his new memoir, the CIA’s former top lawyer is mostly mum on the topic.

Task Force: Killer Drone

  If there’s one thing that Washington D.C. loves, it’s a good Task Force. To that end, the Stimson Center announced last week that former CENTCOM chief (Ret.) Gen. John Abizaid will head up a new Task Force looking at US drone policy. The 15-month study “will bring together legal, national security, political and military…

And the (Drone) War Drums Beat On

President Barack Obama last week told the world he intends to scale back his armed drone program. Well, try telling that to a handful of alleged al-Qaida operatives who, apparently until Wednesday, resided in northwest Pakistan. The Obama administration green-lighted a drone strike in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region that one think tank says killed between…

Drone Week Begins as Armed UAVs’ Familiar ‘Buzz’ Becoming Less Frequent

[HTML1] Since last December, Congress has had Fiscal Cliff Week then Sequestration Week then CR Week and most recently Budget Week. The Senate even had Guns Week. And now comes Drone Week. Two congressional panels on Tuesday are holding hearings on the role of armed unmanned aircraft in future military operations — and the very…