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"Was that so hard?"
— Amy Davidson on Attorney General Eric Holder’s letter to Rand Paul, answering Paul’s question about the President’s authority to to use weaponized drones to kill Americans not engaged in combat on U.S. soil: http://nyr.kr/XVEH2i(Source: newyorker.com)
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Live Chat: The Ethics of Drone Warfare
Years of secrecy surrounding the United States’ drone program have left many questions—about targeted killings, transparency and due process; the power of President; and where battlefields begin and end.
Today at 3 P.M. E.T., Michael Walzer, the author of “Just and Unjust Wars” and professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; Jeff McMahan, a professor of philosophy at Rutgers and the author of “The Ethics of Killing”; and New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer will discuss the ethics of drone warfare in a live chat with readers.
Follow the link to help get the exchange started by leaving questions in the comments section, and be sure to return at 3:00 for the discussion: http://nyr.kr/WJNjcj(Source: newyorker.com)
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Whom Can the President Kill?
In today’s Daily Comment, Amy Davidson looks at the white paper outlining the Obama Administration’s legal analysis of when it is allowed to kill Americans, a document she says is plagued by vague definitions with troubling implications: http://nyr.kr/Wucq2x
Photograph of John Brennan, by Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times/Redux.
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Obama’s Drone Problem
Amy Davidson asks, “The Obama Administration worried about how Romney might use its targeted-assassination program: but was the problem Mitt or the “kill list” itself?” Continue reading.
