When a U.S. citizen heard he was on his own countryâs drone target list, he wasnât sure he believed it. After five near-misses, he does â and is suing the United States to contest his own executionâŠ
âOne thing that particularly troubled him was that Americans had begun to remove the human element from the assassination process. One of the few things known about the Kill List is that itâs compiled in part by algorithm.In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, âWe kill people based on metadata.â Â Â
âThe essence of Faisal bin Ali Jaber v. Barack Hussein Obama et al. is that when we kill abroad, even by mistake, even in an undeclared war, this is foreign policy and therefore outside of judicial authority. This left the Jabersâ claim ânonjusticiable,â i.e., literally outside the reach of the law.â
âWe wiped out the Geneva Convention by creating the unlawful enemy combatant, a term that simply means a person not protected by the Geneva Conventionâ
âIn all, she found that as many as 1,147 people may have died just in attacks targeting the 41 men she studied. The victims were disproportionately children. In attacks targeting 14 men in Pakistan, 142 children died.â










