Post by Blarney Rubble on Dec 2, 2013 4:59:38 GMT -5
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25180906
Interesting... Unmanned drone technology is progressing in leaps and bounds. At the moment unmanned drones are used almost exclusively by the CIA to carry out extrajudicial killings in foreign countries. Apparently this is legal under US law. If unmanned drones become more widely available, and other countries use them to kill people in the US, will it still be legal? What grounds will the US government have for retaliating against drone attacks from other countries when it's been using drones to kill people in other countries for years?
Interesting... Unmanned drone technology is progressing in leaps and bounds. At the moment unmanned drones are used almost exclusively by the CIA to carry out extrajudicial killings in foreign countries. Apparently this is legal under US law. If unmanned drones become more widely available, and other countries use them to kill people in the US, will it still be legal? What grounds will the US government have for retaliating against drone attacks from other countries when it's been using drones to kill people in other countries for years?