Lawfare Archive: Benjamin Wittes Gives a Talk at Parliament on Whether Drones are the New Guantanamo
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🗓️ 18 September 2021
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Lawfare's editor in chief, Benjamin Wittes, gives a talk at the Palace of Westminster--sponsored by the Henry Jackson Society--on whether drones are becoming the new Guantanamo.
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| 0:29.0 | Hello, this is Jacob Schultz with the LawFair episode |
| 0:41.0 | from the archive for September 18th, 2021. |
| 0:46.0 | There's been a lot in the news recently about drone strikes, |
| 0:49.0 | particularly with news breaking about significant civilian casualties |
| 0:53.0 | resulting from US drone strikes in Afghanistan. |
| 0:55.0 | So this week, I picked an episode from the archive in which Benjamin Woodis, |
| 0:59.0 | LawFair's editor-in-chief, gave a talk in 2013 at the Palace of Westminster |
| 1:05.0 | on whether drones are becoming the new guantan. |
| 1:09.0 | Hello, and welcome to the LawFair podcast. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm Wells Bennett. |
| 1:15.0 | In this episode, Benjamin Woodis, my colleague here at Brookings |
| 1:19.0 | and LawFair's editor-in-chief, speaks at Britain's House of Commons on April 24th |
| 1:24.0 | during an event organized by the Henry Jackson Society. |
| 1:27.0 | The question under discussion is, are drones the new guantanamo? |
| 1:31.0 | Well, good evening, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 1:33.0 | We've been just about to strike six p.m. |
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