I find the whole drone thing tiresome.
A drone is merely a somewhat more powerful sniper with the capacity to shoot people 10,000 miles away. If it is legal and justifiable to take a guy out with a sniper team, it’s equally justifiable to take him out using a drone.
If not, not.
Whoever makes the decision to pull the trigger and the guy who actually pulls it are entirely responsible legally for whether they took the correct action. If they are not justified legally, they are subject to trial for whatever crimes they may have committed in the process.
“Whoever makes the decision to pull the trigger and the guy who actually pulls it are entirely responsible legally for whether they took the correct action.”
Ya mean like the No-Knock drug raids of the 1980s? You know, the ones which were only going to be used against armed, violent drug gangs holed-up in crack houses?
Once habeas corpus is ‘legally’ dismiss-able the entire principle is subverted.