Rosa Brooks
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
Rosa Brooks is the Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and a professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. From April 2009 to July 2011, she served as counselor to the undersecretary of defense for policy at the Department of Defense. The following is excerpted from an April 23, 2013, statement during a Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights hearing on “Drone Wars: The Constitutional and Counterterrorism Implications of Targeted Killing.” The mere mention of drones tends to arouse strong emotional reactions on both sides of the political…
