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Targeted Killing: Accountability and Oversight via a Drone Accountability Regime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2015

David Whetham
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Symposium: Toward a Drone Accountability Regime
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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , Spring 2015 , pp. 59 - 65
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2015 

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1 Watkins, Tom, “Anti-Drone Protests Take Off in Britain,” CNN, April 27, 2013 Google Scholar.

2 Whetham, David, “Drones: The Moral Ups and Downs,” Journal of the Royal United Services Institute 158, no. 3 (2013)Google Scholar, p. 23.

3 In the United States this role is called the JTAC: Joint Tactical Air Controller or Joint Terminal Attack Controller.

4 Whetham, “Drones: The Moral Ups and Downs,” p. 26.

5 Ibid., p. 27.

6 Individual referred to only as Fire Control Officer, “World at One,” BBC Radio 4, January 4, 2013.

7 Strawser, Bradley Jay, “Moral Predators: The Duty to Employ Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles,” Journal of Military Ethics 9, no. 4 (2010), pp. 342–68CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 Cicero, De Officiis 39.XIII.

9 Whetham, David, Just Wars and Moral Victories: Surprise, Deception and the Normative Framework of European War in the Later Middle Ages (Leiden: Brill, 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, p. 2.

10 Eric Holder, “Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at Northwestern University School of Law” (speech, Chicago, Ill., March 5, 2012), www.justice.gov/iso/opa/ag/speeches/2012/ag-speech-1203051.html.

11 For a good discussion of this topic, see Gross, Michael L., Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

12 This carefully formulated definition is offered by Solis, Gary, The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, p. 538.

13 Whetham, David, “Drones and Targeted Killing: Angels or Assassins?,” in Strawser, , ed., Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, p. 76.

14 Holder, “Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at Northwestern University School of Law.”

15 Whetham, “Drones and Targeted Killing,” p. 82.

16 Grant, Ruth and Keohane, Robert, “Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics,” American Political Science Review 99, no. 1 (2005), pp. 29–43.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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18 Philip Alston, “Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions: Addendum, Study on Targeted Killings,” United Nations Human Rights Council, May 28, 2010, UN document A/HRC/14/24/Add.6, p. 27, www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/14session/A.HRC.14.24.Add6.pdf.