Accountability

I've got a backlog of drone material, but meanwhile, here's a lucid expostion of the anti-drone position by Barbara Lochbihler, Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament. A small sample:

"The US drone program’s legal basis is entirely unclear, however. Given that most information about UAV activity is classified, it is impossible to know whether all drone targets directly participated in hostilities. And, while the Obama administration’s claim of zero or single-digit civilian fatalities may be true according to the official definition, it rests on the premise that any military-age male killed in a drone strike is a militant, unless intelligence posthumously proves otherwise."