6 Months After Obama Promised to Divulge More on Drones, Here’s What We Still Don’t Know
Obama promised more transparency and tighter policies around targeted killings
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Read MoreUS targeting of rescuers who respond to scene of earlier explosions are clearly “war crimes”
Read MoreThe high number of civilian casualties directly contradicts statements made by senior Obama administration officials and top lawmakers.
Read MoreIt’s the first prominent allegation of a civilian death since President Obama pledged in a major speech in May “to facilitate transparency and debate” about the U.S. war
Read MoreObama said that targeting terrorists with unmanned aerial vehicles was a legal, effective and just military tactic
Read MoreThe Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights held its first hearing on the Obama administration’s targeted killing program entitled “Drone Wars: The Constitutional and Counterterrorism Implications of Targeted Killing”
Read MoreThe government apparently calls such attacks signature strikes because the targets are identified based on intelligence “signatures” that suggest involvement in terror plots or militant activity.
Read MoreObama has so far refused to release legal memos that justify the use of drone strikes against suspected terrorists in countries like Yemen and Pakistan. The program has faced criticism for killing civilians and lacking due process of law.
Read MoreGates referred to the targeted killings as “being able to execute in effect an American citizen, no matter how awful,” and said some third party should have a say in it, with the intelligence committees of Congress kept informed.
Read MoreLike the war in Afghanistan, these and hundreds of other drone strikes have occurred under the authority of a concise law passed one week after 9/11.
Read MoreDrones have been the Obama administration’s tool of choice for taking out militants outside of Iraq and Afghanistan. Drones aren’t the exclusive weapon
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