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Goldsmith & Heymann Debate Options for KSM

Click here to listen to the full debate By Mat Trachok, NSJ Staff Editor – On April 19th, Professors Jack Goldsmith and Phil Heymann of Harvard Law School debated what the Obama administration should do with alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM).  According to both Goldsmith and Heymann, the United States has three options available: it can try KSM before a military commission, it can try him in a civilian court, or it can continue to hold him in military detention.  Both professors agreed that trying KSM before a military commission was the worst option.  However, they also agreed […]

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Unmanned Robotics & New Warfare: A Pilot/Professor’s Perspective

By Mary L. Cummings – As the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Humans and Automation Laboratory, I was asked to comment from a technologist’s perspective at the recent symposium Drone Warfare: New Robotics & Targeted Killings on the panel  “Unmanned Robotics & New Warfare.”  My perspective is unique in that not only do I conduct millions of dollars of research in the development of technologies to enable one or more humans to control unmanned vehicles (i.e., robots) more easily, but I also look at these issues from the perspective of having flown advanced fighters in the U.S. Navy,

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