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ACLU Sues Gov't Over Drones
ACLU Sues Gov't Over Drones
By Jen Dimascio | Politico
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the federal government Tuesday to learn the use of unmanned drones for targeted killings by the military and CIA.
“In particular, the lawsuit asks for information on when, where and against whom drone strikes can be authorized, the number and rate of civilian casualties and other basic information essential for assessing the wisdom and legality of using armed drones to conduct targeted killings,” the ACLU said in a statement, announcing its action.
The nonprofit civil liberties group filed initial Freedom of Information Act requests with the Defense, Justice and State departments and with the Central Intelligence Agency on Jan. 13. Only the CIA responded, and the ACLU is pursuing that request with an appeal to the agency.
The military and intelligence communities have increasingly relied on Predator and Reaper unmanned drones to capture video imagery and launch deadly missile strikes, particularly lately in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan. The Pentagon, especially, continues to purchase more and more drones each year. Read more.
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sue over the criminal wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Stop the wars and you'll stop the use of drones for these wars. Stop the drones and you won't be near stopping the wars, yet.
My initial post was censored, deleted, so apparently some moderator or moderators at ADS prefer to support opposing the use of drones than to support stopping the criminal wars.
The use of the drones has been and continues to be hellishly criminal, but the criminal wars are worse and won't be stopped by stopping the use of the drones. I hope people realise that the wars must be stopped and all foreign forces withdrawn from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
If the ACLU can sue over the drones, then it can sue over the criminal wars.
Mike Corbeil
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/50866#comment-244562
If it is, you just put it on a different thread.