https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/13/courting-disaster-a-new-idea-to-limit-drone-strikes-could-actually-legitimize-them/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 03:23:19 -0400<![CDATA[There’s now a debate about whether critics of the lawyers who justified President Bush’s torture policies have applied a double standard to the lawyers who justified President Obama’s targeted killings. But regardless of whether you think targeted killings are more or less morally troubling than torture, there’s no doubt that a judicial endorsement of those policies is something that would make many judges uncomfortable. On a recent panel, retired Judge James Robertson, who resigned from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in protest against President Bush’s secret spying program, made clear his opposition to involving judges in signing death warrants.]]>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:00:09 -0500<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/13/courting-disaster-a-new-idea-to-limit-drone-strikes-could-actually-legitimize-them-n280977