The story at the core of this curiously directed and somewhat misleadingly titled documentary — an adaptation of Peter Bergen's excellent, bestselling book — is an innately fascinating one. Unfortunately, as either a primer on America's terrorist ...

Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University Law Center professor who served as a Pentagon adviser during the height of the drone strikes, questioned the legality of drone strikes away from active battlefields, saying that the targeted killing policy “is on ...

Philip Mudd, a former CIA and FBI counterterror analyst, cautioned that the consequence of a broad misunderstanding of what would be required for detailed action on all tip-offs to the authorities would require turning the US into a surveillance state ...

"The number of threats that we faced day to day when I was there, and I know they still face today, dwarfs what you see in the newspapers," says Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the FBI's National Security Branch. "You're dealing with dozens of ...