by Spencer Ackerman | Mar 6, 2013 | Monitor
Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster started out to block John Brennan’s nomination to run the CIA. It became a rare, wide-ranging Senate indictment of the war on terrorism.
by Spencer Ackerman | Mar 1, 2013 | Monitor
Once al-Qaida turned airplanes into missiles. Now its tips for would-be jihadis run more toward vehicular vandalism.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 21, 2013 | Monitor
What’s the simplest way to evade a $4.5 million armed, flying robot? Get some grass mats. Or smear your car with mud.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 7, 2013 | Monitor
The head of the United Nations inquiry into drone strikes and targeted killings believes the chief architect of those efforts, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, will rein them in at the CIA.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 5, 2013 | Monitor
Once, a nation could only attack another if it had evidence an enemy was readying an “imminent” attack. To justify drone strikes on American citizens, President Obama redefined imminence out of existence.