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White House Ordered to Disclose Drone Memo

posted by n1 on Tuesday April 22 2014, @03:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the rationale-[redacted] dept.

Sir Garlon writes:

The Washington Post is reporting that the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the Obama administration to disclose its legal rationale for killing American citizens with drone strikes.

If I'm reading this correctly, the ruling applies only to drone strikes that kill American citizens like Anwar Al-Awlaki, not the entire broader campaign of drone attacks in Pakistan and other countries. It doesn't require the strikes on Americans to stop, but it does appear to open the door to legal challenges to the justification for such attacks.

The Court's ruling does allow the administration to redact the documents before release. The full 52-page PDF of the ruling is available here.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 22 2014, @06:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 22 2014, @06:15AM (#34265)

    Anything can be spun to accent a particular leaning or angle. IT seems to me that in the one case mentioned in the posting, this is an "amerikan". Go and take out the movie "Not without my daughter". These cherry-pie people have duped and lulled the US into submission to their agenda. Nuff sed... go watch, have a think...