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... as part of a UN investigation into the use of drones announced last January. The British attorney learned that not only ... of continuing tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory by any other State are false, and confirmed that a ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 03/26/2013 - 14:00 - 0 attachments

Critics of the Obama administration's drone program point to the secrecy it is shrouded in as one of its major flaws. How can we judge the morality or the legality of the attacks if the government keeps secret even its legal justification for ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 01/14/2013 - 18:07 - 0 attachments

The militarization of the police  in the United States was arguably jump-started by the declaration of the war on drugs , and the funding streams and statutes that came with it. But as we regularly document on this website, the gover ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 04/12/2013 - 13:44 - 0 attachments

Does the IRS get warrants when it searches through our emails? The ACLU wanted a simple answer to this simple question, and so filed a FOIA request to the agency to find out. My colleague Nate Wessler explains what they learned: The doc ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 04/10/2013 - 11:57 - 0 attachments

... the air – foreshadow the future we face living with drones. The “peace convoy” organized by Imran Khan, the former ... raising the stakes concerning the operation of US killer drones in Waziristan. As he told his supporters , "We want to give a ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 10/09/2012 - 16:15 - 0 attachments

Not much, you may think. Being barred from entering US airspace in the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center bears no resemblance to being targeted for extinction in National Counterterrorism Center’s Disposition Matrix &h ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 02/26/2013 - 11:45 - 0 attachments

... DHS documents reveal that the agency’s Predator drones are equipped with high-tech surveillance gear Documents ... Privacy Information Center reveal that DHS’ Predator drones were built to enable bomb-dropping, though the agency says they are ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 03/05/2013 - 15:53 - 0 attachments

... of those who are terrorized by the continuous buzz of drones in the skies above them and traumatized by drone strikes that kill ... School of Law for describing how the constant presence of drones “terrorizes men, women, and children” by “striking ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 10/02/2012 - 15:12 - 0 attachments

There are the dead, killed by drones. And then there are the living dead, buried alive in Guantanamo before ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 03/19/2013 - 13:13 - 0 attachments

... on the sovereignty of other countries when we drop drones in other countries? Do they violate principles of international human ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 12/04/2012 - 14:53 - 0 attachments