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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 21 2018, @12:19PM (1 child)
Again - I bear responsibility for my own country. The citizens of those other four countries bear responsibility for their own governments. My responsibility for those other four governments is indeed microsopic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @06:48PM
Again, USA is 1/5 of the five eyes.
You said "microscopic responsibility for the Five Eye's boogeymen", not "microscopic responsibility for the other four countries of the Five Eye's boogeymen".
And before you claim "that's what I meant", you followed on by saying "American boogeymen are in league with the Five Eyes", as if the American boogeymen weren't themselves one of the five eyes.
And no, sane people don't use "in league with" to mean "part of".
You also put the apostrophe in the wrong place, YOU MONSTER.