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marmar

(77,131 posts) Wed Jun 20, 2012, 08:03 AM Jun 2012

Drone strikes: activists seek to lift lid on open secret of targeted killings

(Guardian UK) The CIA's covert targeted killing programme will come under fresh scrutiny on Wednesday, the deadline for Barack Obama's administration to respond to a lawsuit over the agency's refusal to confirm or deny its existence.

The federal lawsuit is part of a three-year battle by lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union for details of the drone programme, one of the US government's most important security operations in the war against al-Qaida.

Under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in 2010, ACLU seeks the legal memo underlying the killing programme, the basis for drone strikes that have killed American citizens and the process by which individuals are placed on a kill list.

The administration has until Wednesday to produce papers in the suit, filed in New York, to either hand over the requested documents or to explain why they are being held. ACLU hopes it will be the first formal acknowledgment of the programme. If so the CIA would then have to respond to ACLU's FOIA request. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/20/drone-strikes-targeted-killings-case

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Drone strikes: activists seek to lift lid on open secret of targeted killings (Original Post) marmar Jun 2012 OP

I cannot understand the general silence from the left over this. Puzzledtraveller Jun 2012 #1

We have a Democratic Administration. RC Jun 2012 #2

don't confuse the left with democrats.. frylock Jun 2012 #4

Killing "suspects" is sooo American. L. Coyote Jun 2012 #3

Puzzledtraveller

(5,937 posts)

1. I cannot understand the general silence from the left over this.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 08:43 AM

Jun 2012

RC

(25,592 posts)

2. We have a Democratic Administration.

Reply to Puzzledtraveller (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 08:53 AM

Jun 2012

If this were a Republican administration doing this, we'd all be in the streets, yelling and screaming with our correctly spelled signs.
But because Obama is one of us, none dare call it War Crimes.

frylock

(34,825 posts)

4. don't confuse the left with democrats..

Reply to Puzzledtraveller (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 04:01 PM

Jun 2012

the left is plenty pissed off about this. the democrats are holding their fire until the next republican admin excercises their right to conduct extrajudicial executions.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)

3. Killing "suspects" is sooo American.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 09:02 AM

Jun 2012

International political enemies are always a problem for empires.
This is the kind of activity that turns everyone against the empire.
What are you going to do? Kill everyone outside the empire and it collapses.
Empires depend on the exploitation of the periphery to exist.

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