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When a U.S. citizen heard he was on his own country’s drone target list, he wasn’t sure he believed it. After five near-misses, he does – and is suing the United States to contest his own execution
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With Reprieve’s help, Kareem did what the system asks a law-abiding American citizen with a grievance to do. He sued, filing a complaint in district court in Washington, D.C., on March 30th, 2017, asking the U.S. government to take him off the Kill List, at least until he had a chance to challenge the evidence against him.The case, still unresolved more than a year later, has awesome implications not just for Kareem but for all Americans – all people everywhere, for that matter.
It’s not a stretch to say that it’s one of the most important lawsuits to ever cross the desk of a federal judge. The core of the Bill of Rights is in play, and a wrong result could formalize a slide into authoritarianism that began long ago, but accelerated after 9/11.
He needs to take the matter to Information Retrieval, but heaven help him if he doesn't get his receipt stamped first.
[Ed note: It's a long read, but provides extensive background on the US government's kill list development, implementation, and complications in trying to do anything about it.]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 21 2018, @02:08AM (6 children)
I'm sure that you'll admit that an opinion piece that cites a lot of circumstantial evidence is not, in and of itself, evidence.
Meanwhile - Hillary was happy to climb into bed with the Russians when they were putting hundreds of millions of dollars into her "foundation". The circumstantial evidence surrounding the sale of uranium futures to Russia are far more convincing than that of collusion between Trump and Putin.
But, if you are a die-hard partisan, you can convince yourself of anything the party tells you.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @06:35AM (5 children)
Emails!! She did it first!!!!
OMG get over it, you got a "republican" government, now sack it up and deal with the fact that Trump is likely a traiyor selling out our country.
Whassamatter big fella? Cant handle all the shame this will require? Its ok, ill wait for the final findings from the investigation but im afraid Trump will irreperably damage the US before you trogs get with reality.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 21 2018, @07:20AM (1 child)
What shame? Are you under the impression that Trump is "my guy", "my candidate", or some other such silly shit? If you've read much of my writing, you know that I despise Trump - but I despise Hillary far more. And, I enjoy pointing out your own fucking hypocrisy. The D side can't get over having lost the election, is the reason behind all the witch hunts in the Trump administration.
Your side was in bed with the Russians, so long as it was putting money into the Clinton and Democrat coffers. Now, it's nothing but evil Russians, and collusion between the two most powerful people in the world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:29PM
Oh i know your feelings about trump, and obviously you dont know me cause i didnt vote for either of the turds.
However, your hatred as you SAID aligns you with Trump against the whiny democrats of which i am not one. You can condemn both, but you continually push for Trump while saying you arent. There is no proof and the actual investigation is yielding damning results, but all you can focus on are libruhl tears. It is sad you have such hupocrisy yet are blind to it.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Pav on Saturday July 21 2018, @03:17PM (2 children)
Those emails showed Bernie was cheated in several ways, and so uncontroversially that the DNC ruling committee had to resign en mass, and Donna Brazille was sacked from her media job for leaking debate questions to Hillary (only to be immediately hired by the Hillary campaign). That's your subverting democracy right there, and they cheated a guy who was further ahead of Trump than Hillary n the polls consistently for half a year. Democracy definitely suberted. And this was balls out. Unambiguous. And noones talking about it. I wonder why. Also, it showed Hillary's media allies "elevated" Trump! This was supposedly because he was the guy she had the best chance against. Again, this was a blatant subverion of US democracy. Again, noone is talking about it. Ask yourself why.
If Russia hacked that server... (which Obamas ex FBI deputy doubts, as well as several other ex three-letter-agency people such as Bill Binney, Thomas Drake etc...) then the Russians HELPED US democracy. BTW, the FBI never got access to that server. BTW, so many uncritically believe Robert "weapons of mass distruction" Mueller. Surely people on a nerd forum have memories long enough to realise this guy has proven he'll happily push untruth on the US people if it suits him. And why the sobbing about democracy in a country with the electoral college, rampant gerrymandering and voter disenfranchisement? Does ANYONE believe mainstream Democrats or Republicans actually give a flying crap about democracy?
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:09PM (1 child)
What you, and most other people, don't seem to understand is that the Democratic Party (like the others) is a privately owned organization. I don't think they broke any laws in cheating to select Hillary. It was vile and unethical, but I don't *think* it was illegal.
That said, it was pretty clear to me from the start that Bernie was the "designated loser" in the competition. And he seemed to be aware of it, and be willing to accept it in order to get his message out. But IIUC the DNC could have just appointed Hillary as their candidate, and not even bothered with a primary...but the cost in voter commitment would be too high.
That said, they did break their own rules to get Hillary to win the nomination.
The Republicans weren't much better, but they were blindsided by Trump. So we got someone even worse than the machine candidate. Whoopee!
Perhaps you can tell I'm a bit disgusted with all the political parties. Last time there wasn't a single candidate in any of the four parties on my ballot I thought better than the wino passed out on the corner.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Pav on Saturday July 21 2018, @10:40PM
Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, the head of the DNC who presided over Hillary's cheating against Bernie has also since cheated against Tim Canova (her primary opponent), and there was definitely blatant illegality in that race - basically lying about the result, then ballot destruction to hide this fact. There was an interesting video [youtube.com] released just hours ago of a three-way interview with Tim about the situation, with a citizen activist software developer called Melissa Schwartz talking about her source software which allows citizens to become involved in exit polls to catch stuff like this early.
BTW, in the lawsuit against the DNC the first judge to hear the case specifically addressed the legality of cheating, and made very clear he considered the argument that the DNC could choose who they liked (made by the defence) to be bogus... but very strangely he threw it out anyway on juristictional issues, though since then the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has found sufficient jurisdiction to continue.