Washington Watch: Turf battle over federal responsibility for groundwater

A. Spider

doi:10.1093/bioscience/37.5.317

Washington Watch: Turf battle over federal responsibility for groundwater

BioScience ◽

10.1093/bioscience/37.5.317 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 37 (5) ◽

pp. 317-317

Author(s):

A. Spider

Keyword(s):

Turf Battle

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Parched Turf Battle

Scientific American ◽

10.1038/scientificamerican1202-32 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 287 (6) ◽

pp. 32-33

Author(s):

Daniel Grossman

Keyword(s):

Turf Battle

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The Combatant’s Privilege in Asymmetric and Covert Conflicts

10.31228/osf.io/h5mws ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jens David Ohlin

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

International Law ◽

The United States ◽

Central Intelligence Agency ◽

Intelligence Agency ◽

Military Organization ◽

Special Operations ◽

Drone Strikes ◽

The Government ◽

Turf Battle

[First introductory paragraph] As the United States has engaged in an unprecedented campaign of targeted killings against members of al-Qaeda and associated forces, various agencies within the government have engaged in increasingly pitched squab-bling regarding their respective control over drone strikes in multiple foreign theaters. Authority and responsibility has vacillated between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Defense Department’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the former being an intelligence agency tasked with both intelligence and covert operations directives, and the latter a military organization under the direction of the Secretary of Defense. In addition to the inherent policy questions in this turf battle, there are urgent elements of domestic and international law simmering beneath the surface. Some critics have suggested that CIA officers should not be involved in drone operations because CIA officers are non-uniformed individuals that do not meet the international law standards for privileged belligerency. According to this argument, the calculus regarding the appropriate agency for drone operations ought to take into ac-count that international law does not confer the combatant’s privilege on non-uniformed CIA employees.Published: 40 Yale J. Int'l L. 337-93 (2015)

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