US Drone Strikes Draw International Scrutiny

On May 31, 2010, by William Fisher
On the heels of reports that the Barack Obama administration altered a new manual on military commission rules to accommodate an illegal drone program, a senior United Nations official is expected to call on the U.S. this week to stop Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) drone strikes against people suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda.The UN challenge will come from Philip Alston, the [...]