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2 Dec 2012, 6:01 am
Those of you who followed the Lawfare Drone Smackdown will be interested in this post on DIY Drones:
We had a a great time at the Drone Games at the Groupon offices in SF today. (They used to be called the Drone Olympics until they got a cease-and-desist from the Olympic Organizing Committee). Nine teams competed, all using Parrot AR.Drones running Node.js software. I was one of the judges
The winners were:
#1: James Halliday (“substack”), who wrote an insane… [read post]
7 May 2013, 5:00 am
This post is a follow up to an earlier posting on domestic drones and the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012: Big Brother is Watching
Our state assembly is considering a bipartisan bill that would limit drone use in North Carolina. On March 6th of this year, our NC state chapter of the ACLU joined 22 other state chapters of the ACLU and filed a documents request asking for public records from local law enforcement agencies asking for information about their existing drone programs and… [read post]
14 Mar 2013, 10:48 am
I’m not at all happy that today’s news out of upstate New York proves the point that Jack and I (and a cast of dozens) have tried to make about domestic use of lethal force, but it’s worth pointing out the following facts:
The target of the government’s use of force, Kurt Myers, is a U.S. citizen.
He was killed on U.S. soil.
His killing was carried out under color of law.
Given that the police stormed the bar in which Myers barricaded himself, and that he wasn’t… [read post]
19 Feb 2013, 7:09 pm
As the co-creator of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown and the publisher (though not the baker) of this drone strike cake, I should perhaps check myself before cringing at other people’s drone humor. But I can’t help but ask at this point what’s going on over at the New York Times? The staid paper of record is on a roll of truly terrible—deeply unhumorous—supposedly comic drone pieces.
The other day, our friends at the Times published perhaps dumbest piece of Op Art I… [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 11:42 pm
The President As Executioner; the
Unconstitutionality of Targeted Killings of Americans on American Soil
By
R. Tamara de Silva
March 6, 2013
In
the 2004 decision of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, the Supreme Court of the United States reminded
President George W. Bush's administration and the nation that, "we are heirs to
a tradition given voice over 800 years ago" by the signing of the Magna Carta
and the idea insisted upon by the barons to their king, that his… [read post]
14 Mar 2013, 1:28 pm
The more I reflect on last week’s drone contretemps–and what effect the efforts of Senator Paul and his followers has had / may still have on U.S. policy–the more I have a profound and distressing sense of déjà vu. After all, it was barely 15 months ago that a hitherto-unheard-of coalition between what can safely be described as the left flank of the Democratic party and the right flank of the Republican party almost halted passage of the FY2012 National Defense… [read post]
20 Dec 2012, 2:23 am
Frequent readers will know that I absolutely hate this idea.
At least it isn't the government? [read post]
7 Feb 2013, 3:01 pm
What the Drone Memo Means
By
R. Tamara de Silva
February 7, 2013
[W]e are heirs to a tradition given
voice 800 years ago by Magna Carta, which, on the barons' insistence, confined
executive power by "the law of the land." Justice Souter and Justice Ginsburg, Hamdi v.
Rumsfeld 542 U.S. 507 (2004)
On
February 5, 2013, a Department of Justice memo ("Drone Memo") was released to
NBC justifying the President's killing of Americans by… [read post]
2 Jan 2013, 3:27 pm
The President Barack Obama administration does not have to disclose the legal basis for its drone targeted killing program of Americans, according to a Wednesday decision the judge likened to "Alice in Wonderland."
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14 Feb 2013, 3:29 pm
Will Alameda County become California's first local government to deploy a drone? If the decision were up to dozens of angry residents and several civil rights groups, the answer would be a resounding "No." They urged the Bay Area county's ...
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5 Mar 2013, 12:00 pm
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday it is investigating an unidentified black drone an Alitalia pilot said he encountered while approaching John F. Kennedy International Airport. Whether it was a hobbyist breaking the Federal Aviation Administration's 400-foot-altitude rule or ...
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15 Mar 2013, 11:33 am
A federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit seeking CIA documents outlining its drone targeted killing program, ruling Friday that the agency's refusal to acknowledge the program and whether records exist about it contradicts public statements by top government officials, including ...
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30 Jul 2012, 1:18 pm
Unmanned drones are not only flying over the U.S., now they are leading to arrests.
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5 Feb 2013, 12:39 pm
What do you call a country where an unelected bureaucrat has the ability to order the execution of its citizens? Answer: President Barack Obama’s America. That rationale is explained in a 16-page Justice Department “white paper” (.pdf) NBC obtained and ...
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3 May 2013, 1:37 pm
This morning, a gentleman named Sina Kashefipour, who tweets on national security-related matters under the improbable moniker @rejectionking, came by my office to interview me for a podcast he runs on national security called the Loopcast. He just posted the wide-ranging discussion, dealt with drones—domestic and overseas. Here it is.
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7 Mar 2013, 12:43 pm
According to this Talking Points Memo piece, Attorney General Eric Holder today sent another letter to Senator Rand Paul, regarding the latter’s inquiries on the executive branch’s authority to conduct domestic drone strikes against U.S. citizens. The note apparently satisfied Senator Paul, who apparently no longer will seek to block a confirmation vote on DCIA nominee John Brennan.
Here is the Attorney General’s letter, in full:
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14 Apr 2013, 7:53 am
In a subscribers-only interview published Saturday in the British newspaper, The Guardian, Google chairman Eric Schmidt called for increased regulation for non-military and non-law enforcement uses of drones.
"How would you feel if your neighbor went over and bought a commercial observation drone that they can launch from their backyard,” he said. “It just flies over your house all day. How would you feel about it?"
According to the BBC, which summarized Schmidt’s remarks, he also… [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 7:57 am
Yesterday, the American Security Project (ASP) held a lunch event on drones. The discussion, between ASP’s CEO Stephen Cheney, ASP Fellow Joshua Foust, Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First, and me was a useful and constructive one with a lot of common ground, good audience questions, and an unusually low quantum of rhetoric. Here’s the video:
In connection with the event, Foust released this paper:
Understanding the Strategic and Tactical Considerations of Drone Strikes by The American… [read post]
17 Dec 2012, 6:54 am
From the shameless self-promotion department, this: last week Brookings published my recent paper on the integration of unmanned aircraft systems—drones—int0 our national airspace.
The piece identifies: (1) key benchmarks set by the FAA Modernization and Authorization Act, the statute behind the integration process; (2) the agency’s progress to date in meeting those benchmarks; and (3) core policy issues that must be addressed before late 2015—the so-called… [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 1:03 pm
This week, Attorney General Eric Holder and DCIA nominee John Brennan both responded, separately and in writing, to Senator Rand Paul’s inquiry regarding the government’s authority to use lethal force against an American citizen within the United States, and without trial.
Though shorter and less detailed, the two letters together echo some points Jack made a few weeks ago on Lawfare. Here is Brennan’s letter, in full:
And here is the Attorney General’s response… [read post]