Diane Rehms Show: Targeted Assassinations in the War Against Al Qaeda
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Diane Rehms discusses the implications of targeted assassinations in the war against al Qaeda on WAMU 88.5 FM. The Obama administration has accelerated the use of drones for targeted assassinations during the past year, and she details the moral and legal issues surrounding the use of lethal covert action.
Her guests include: James Kitfield, senior correspondent, “National Journal” magazine; Hina Shamsi, Senior Advisor to the Project on Extrajudicial Executions at NYU School of Law and a Lecturer-in-Law on international human rights at Columbia Law School; and Paul Pillar, director, graduate studies at the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University and a former CIA National Intelligence officer. Mr. Pillar mentions ASP’s annual report, Are We Winning? Measuring Progress in the Struggle Against al Qaeda and Associate Movements, which examines the effectiveness of U.S. counter-terrorism policy.
