Former White House chief of staff John Podesta urges President Obama to make drone documents available. In an opinion piece this morning, former Clinton White House chief of sta ...

Vincent G. Harding King's "living letter" from Birmingham jail still speaks to us all. AT TIME ...

Members of Congress ask White House for the legal basis for drone killings. Eight Members of Congress sent a letter to the president yesterday, requesting a complete report on t ...

Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster sparks public debate. Sen. Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster last week against the administration’s drone policy brought a long-simmering debate to ...

First drone strike in nearly a month kills two. The first reported drone strike in nearly a month is said to have happened Sunday morning in the North Waziristan tribal region o ...

While I stand with Sen. Rand Paul on the question of the use of militarized spy drones in American airspace and (potentially) on Americans, I am deeply troubled by our use of these weapons in other lands, too, ...

Sen. Rand Paul helps put drone killings in the spotlight. Sen. Rand Paul took the floor of the U.S. Senate Wednesday morning and announced that he was filibustering the nominati ...

Sen. Rand Paul filibusters Brennan nomination over drone strikes. The Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday confirmed White House adviser John Brennan as CIA director on a 12- ...

The House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on drone policy. The House Judiciary Committee yesterday held one of the first public hearings on U.S. drone strikes, with Democrat ...

British terror suspects stripped of citizenship, then killed by drones. While the U.S. continues to debate whether the president has legal authority to order the drone killing o ...

Current events, like much about our lives, frequently leave us hopeless, fearful, and uncertain. Religious faith isn’t a matter of wishing away these experiences; it involves perceiving God in the midst of our ...

Former White House press secretary was told not to acknowledge drone program existed. Yesterday on MSNBC’s Up w/ Chris Hayes , former White House Press Secretary Robert G ...

U.S. troops are in Niger to support a new drone base. With a short note  to the Congressional leadership, President Barack Obama announced last week that a total of 100 U ...

When we so disconnect our warriors from the realities of war, what does that do to their souls and to our collective soul? Do we lose sight of the horrible human cost of war? Do we become arrogant in our perce ...

U.N. reports on drone strikes in Afghanistan. The U.N. mission in Afghanistan released its annual report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan on Tuesday, finding a decrease fro ...

Catholics discuss moral and ethical concerns about drone warfare. Dennis Sadowski at Catholic News Service has a good summary of the moral and ethical concerns about dro ...

Controversy over the domestic use of drones is growing. While we have been focusing on drones as weapons of war – killing by drone – controversy over the domestic use of drones ...

Control of the U.S. drone program may move from the CIA to the Pentagon. The U.S. killing by drones in countries other than war zones is run by the CIA. This leads to the secrecy ...

The Pentagon is creating a new medal for drone pilots and others not physically in a war zone. Military medals have historically been given for exceptional bravery in combat. But ...

Committee delays confirmation vote on John Brennan while seeking additional drone information. As the drone debate continues, the Senate Intelligence Committee is delaying a confi ...

Drone strike in Pakistan kills seven. The day after the hearing on John Brennan’s nomination to head the CIA, U.S. drones were back in action over Pakistan. An attack on Friday in ...

Why we should oppose killing by drones. America’s killing by drone program finally became frontpage news this week with the leak of a memo arguing the legality of targeting U.S. c ...

February 6, 2013 Sojo in the News Dan Shenk ...

The publication on Monday of a previously secret Justice Department memo has opened the door for front-page questions about the entire drone program. The publication on Monday of ...

Leaked Justice Department memo justifies drone strikes under certain conditions against American citizens. Editor's Note : DRONE WATCH follows daily developments about d ...

U.S. plans to base surveillance drones in northern Africa. The New York Times reports that the U.S. is preparing to establish a base in northwest Africa so that it can fly ...

A U.N. special rapporteur is beginning an investigation into drone strikes. Ben Emmerson, a U.N. special rapporteur, is beginning an investigation into drone strikes in Afghanist ...

Playbook of rules for drone attacks exempts CIA in Pakistan. Several months ago, the Washington Post reported  that presidential counterterrorism adviser John Brennan w ...

Fourteen deaths in Yemen drone strikes in past four days. While Washington, D.C., reveled in the ceremonies and parties surrounding Inauguration Day, U.S. drones were busy in Yeme ...

Making public the secret legal memos that claim to justify drone policy. John Brennan, President Obama’s counterterrorism advisor and nominee for CIA Director, is one of the archi ...

Rep. Keith Ellison proposes Congress create a legal framework to guide executive action. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) writes in a Washington Post op-ed of the many unanswered ...

What we know and what we don’t know about drone strikes. For a number of months, I’ve reported and commented on news of drone strikes, the drone program, and legal and political ...

A foreign policy of fewer troops on the ground, but more drones in the air. Ross Douthat posits that President Obama’s nominations of former Sen. Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defen ...

Drone attacks in Pakistan have been escalating since the start of the year. Since the start of the year, drone attacks in Pakistan have been escalating. In the first ten days of J ...

Drone reports in today's news. The United Nations wants to use drones in peacekeeping missions, but some developing countries are opposed, fearing that it will become  a new ...

Drones are counter-productive and encouraging a new arms race. Michael Boyle, an assistant professor at La Salle University, who served on President Obama’s counter-terrorism advi ...

The difficulty of determining what really happens in drone strikes. The secrecy of the U.S. drone program often makes it difficult to follow what is happening. News reports cite u ...

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports on drones 2012.   The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has a comprehensive year-end report on U.S. drone strikes in 2012 , m ...

Tribesmen protest fifth drone strike in the past ten days. Drone strikes are being escalated in Yemen with the fifth attack in the past ten days occurring on Thursday. Reuters r ...

Senior Taliban commander killed in drone strike.   Over the last two days, multiple drone strikes in Pakistan killed at least 13 people. According to the Associated Press , ...

Thirteen protesters found guilt of trespassing for drone protest. The Syracuse Post-Standard reports that 13 people were found guilty of trespassing yesterday in DeWitt, N ...

House Judiciary Committee holds hearing on drone killings. Joshua Hersh reports on Huffington Post that the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing yesterday on the use o ...

High-tech killing by drones and violations of international law. University of Notre Dame Law School Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell writes in Peace Policy  of the “high-tec ...

Drone attacks in Pakistan lead to hatred of the US. Qanta Ahmed, Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow in Science and Religion and Associate Professor of Medicine, State Universit ...

Federal agencies are loaning drones to local law enforcement. While most news of drones is their use abroad by the U.S. military and CIA, they are also increasingly used for surve ...

An increasing number of drones are crashing at civilian airports. Over the past few years, there have been an increasing number of U.S. drones crashing  at civilian airports. ...

Air Force reports 447 drone strikes in Afghanistan this year. Most drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen are eventually reported. Not so in Afghanistan. Since they are part of an on ...

Two senior Al Qaeda leaders killed in drone strikes. One of the remaining Al Qaeda leaders was killed Thursday in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan. The Associated Press reports ...

Administration developing rules for drone strikes. The New York Times reports that before the election, the Obama administration was working to develop rules and procedu ...

An Awake to Drones blog has been started by Protest Chaplains of Chicago. An Awake to Drones  blog has been started by Protest Chaplains of Chicago  to begin a conversation ...