Skip to content  It’s Time for a White Paper on Congressional
Oversight of Targeted Killings  Friday, March 22, 2013 at 12:19
AM  In my prior posts I discussed the process of targeted
killing, and some of the accountability mechanisms embedded in
the process.  This post, and my next and final post will address
reform recommendations that may help make the targeted killing
program more publicly accountable.  The recent news that the
Obama administration is considering transferring responsibility
for drone strikes from the CIA to DOD has some questioning
whether the change will have much impact on the program. 
Spencer Ackerman nicely sums things up when he writes:  The
congressional reporting requirements for so-called Title 50
programs (stuff CIA does, to be reductive) are more specific
than those for Title 10 (stuff the military does, to be
reductive). But the armed services committees tend to have
unquestioned and broader oversight functions than the
intelligence committees enjoy, not to mention better rela