Wonderland Wire

The witnesses made a number of points that put the defendants’ trespassing in a larger context, including the fact that U.S. drone strikes kill civilians indiscriminately and in large numbers (there’s a 10-to-1 civilian-to-insurgent kill ratio, according to a recent Brookings Institute study); that intentional, targeted killing is a war crime; and that, according to Nuremberg principles, every citizen has a duty to disobey laws or orders that perpetuate crimes against humanity.