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The Joint Committee, drone strikes and self-defence: Caught in no man's land? by White, Nigel D.

“…The Report is clear in its finding that ‘it is the Government’s policy to be willing to use lethal force, outside of armed conflict …, against individuals suspected of planning an imminent terrorist attack against the UK, as a last resort, when there is no other way of preventing the attack’. This brief op-ed explores the Joint Committee’s interrogation of this policy under both the law governing the use of force by states (the jus ad bellum), and the law applying when a state uses lethal force outside of armed conflict (international human rights law), arguing that self-defence is the thread that links both. …”
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‘Do we still need the CIA?’ Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Central Intelligence Agency and US foreign policy by McGarr, Paul M.

“…In May 1991, writing in the op-ed column of the New York Times, the US Senator for New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, called for the Central Intelligence Agency to be disbanded. …”
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