Drone Strikes

News Articles

 * "Anwar al-Awlaki" - Times Topic
 * Drone Strike Killed No. 2 in Al Qaeda, U.S. Official Says" New York Times (6/5/2012)
 * "Dissecting Obama’s Standard on Drone Strike Deaths" Pro Publica (6/5/2012)
 * “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Drones” Mother Jones (6/5/2012)
 * "Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will" New York Times (5/29/2012)
 * "Top U.S. Security Official Says ‘Rigorous Standards’ Are Used for Drone Strikes" New York Times (4/30/2012)
 * "Interview With Harold Koh, Obama's Defender of Drone Strikes" The Daily Beast (4/8/2012)
 * "Holder Outlines Policy on Killing Terrorism Suspects" New York Times (3/5/2012)
 * "Pentagon Says U.S. Citizens With Terrorism Ties Can Be Targeted in Strikes" New York Times (2/22/2012)
 * "An American Teenager in Yemen: Paying for the Sins of His Father?" TIME (10/27/2011)
 * "Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen" New York Times (10/8/2011)
 * "At White House, Weighing Limits of Terror Fight" New York Times (9/5/2011)
 * "Yemen Sets Terms of a War on Al Qaeda" New York Times (12/3/2010)
 * "Secrets Cited in White House Effort to Block Suit"New York Times (9/25/2010)
 * Suit filed in an attempt to get Anwar al-Awlaki removed from the "Kill List"
 * "Rights Groups Sue U.S. on Effort to Kill Cleric" New York Times (8/30/2010)
 * "ACLU, CCR seek to have Obama enjoined from killing Awlaki without due process" CCR (8/2010)
 * "U.N. Official to Ask U.S. to End C.I.A. Drone Strikes" New York Times (5/27/2010)
 * "ACLU Sues U.S. for Information on Targeted Killing Program" ACLU (2/1/2010)
 * "Threats and Responses: Hunt for Al Qaeda; Bush had Widened Authority of C.I.A. to Kill Terrorists" New York Times (12/15/2002)

Government Statements

 * John O. Brennan, President Obama's top counterterrorism advisor
 * "The Ethics and Efficacy of the President’s Counterterrorism Strategy” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (4/30/2012)
 * "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws" White House (9/16/2011)
 * In this speech, Brennan "strongly denied the accusation that the administration had sometimes chosen to kill militants when capturing them was possible, saying the policy preference is to interrogate them for intelligence." NYT
 * Attorney General Eric Holder at Northwestern University School of Law (text) Department of Justice (3/5/2012)
 * Harold Hongju Koh, Legal Adviser to the State Department, at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (text) Department of State (3/25/2010)

Editorials and Blogs

 * "Drone Strikes Against Citizens in Permanent Secrecy?" Sunlight Foundation - John Wonderlich (6/6/2012)
 * "Too Much Power for a President" New York Times (5/30/2012)
 * "Lethal Force Under Law" New York Times (10/9/2010)

Other

 * Lawsuit filed by the ACLU (2/1/2012)
 * seeking "to obtain the government’s evidence for the strike that killed Mr. Awlaki and Mr. Khan, as well as a separate strike in mid-October that killed Mr. Awlaki’s teenage son." NYT
 * Lawsuit filed by the New York Times under FOIA seeking to release the related counsel memorandum (12/20/2011)
 * Lawsuit filed by the ACLU and CCR (Center for Constitutional Rights) to remove Mr. Awlaki from t he "Kill List." (8/3/2010)
 * Brief
 * Complaint
 * "American Jihadist Terrorism: Combating a Complex Threat" Congressional Research Service (11/15/2011)
 * “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Background and Issues for Congress" Congressional Research Service (11/21/2005)