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

The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing, Secrecy, and the Law (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781620972595)

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

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

$27.95
The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing, Secrecy, and the Law by Jaffer, Jameel

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

$27.95
Format: Hardcover
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"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

Author: Jameel Jaffer
ISBN-10: 162097259X
ISBN-13: 9781620972595
Publisher: New Press
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2016
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2016
Booklist 11/15/2016 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 12/05/2016
By Jameel Jaffer
By Jameel Jaffer
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Jameel Jaffer is a deputy legal director of the ACLU. He led the ACLU legal team that sued for the release of the drone memos. He has written about the drone program for the New York Times, The Guardian, and the Harvard Law Review Forum among others and was listed by Foreign Policy magazine as a "Top 100 Global Thinker." He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show, All In with Chris Hayes, and Democracy Now! and speaks regularly at venues including the American Bar Association's annual convening, law schools, and ACLU affiliates across the country. He is the co-author of Administration of Torture and lives in Brooklyn.

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