encourage executive officials to observe these limits. Executive officials would be less likely to exceed or abuse their authority if they were required to defend their conduct to federal judges. Johnson, the Defense Department’s former general counsel Even Jeh and a vocal defender of the targeted acknowledged that judicial review could add “rigor” to the executive’s killing program, in a recent speech decisionmaking process. In explaining the function of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which oversees government executive officials have often said that even the mere surveillance in certain national security investigations, prospect of judicial review deters error and abuse.
encourage executive officials to observe these limits. Executive officials would be less likely to exceed or abuse their authority if they were required to defend their conduct to federal judges. Even Jeh Johnson, the Defense Department’s former general counsel and a vocal defender of the targeted killing program, acknowledged in a recent speech that judicial review could add “rigor” to the executive’s decisionmaking process. In explaining the function of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which oversees government surveillance in certain national security investigations, executive officials have often said that even the mere prospect of judicial review deters error and abuse.