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Lawfare Archive: Benjamin Wittes Gives a Talk at Parliament on Whether Drones are the New Guantanamo

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Do You Believe There's an Armed Conflict That Justifies Targeting?

i think almost everything the that you've put on the table relies on a an assumption that is contested between the united states and everybody who argues what you argue. So there is this binery threshold question that a huge amount of where you go with this depends on. Do you believe there's an armed conflict that justifies targeting? If you don't believe that, i agree with you, you're in yourin kind of a lawless environment here. I e, look,  the united states has a, does not have judicial oversightof oversea of military operations. And there are essentially no exceptions to that, except, um, the habeas review of detentions at gu

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