Guidelines for killing US citizens stir outrage. (VIDEO)

Since the recent leaking of a secretive white paper that explains the White House's policy on extrajudicial executions, the issue of unmanned drones has flooded the mainstream media.

According to the document, the president can order a drone strike on American citizens with no evidence or justification of a crime or connection to terrorists.

But why after a decade of the drone program is it getting much more attention?

Stanley Cohen, an international human rights lawyer, sounds off on the topic.


As long as the innocent civilians that were killed by CIA drones had names like Mohammed, Americans didn't mind (VIDEO)