You truly don't get it, do you? You see no problem with drones being sent to Countries we are not even at war with Targeting Non Combatants and those around them, in the wrong place at the wrong time, without Oversight, without Congress or the Courts signing off on these assignations? The President can Target Anyone in the World for Assignation, without Due Process, and you are okay with that? Nothing strikes you here, with regards to abuse of power? Should China or the Soviet Union, or North Korea choose to follow this precedent, are you okay with that too? This is taking Progressive Statist Totalitarianism to the next level, and that just fits right in with your grand plan?
**** the Constitution, the end justifies the means? Is that the game plan?
October 19, 2011
In a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the American Civil Liberties Union asked the government to disclose the legal basis for its use of predator drones to conduct "targeted killings" overseas. In particular, the ACLU seeks to find out when, where and against whom drone strikes can be authorized, and how the United States ensures compliance with international laws relating to extrajudicial killings.
The FOIA request was filed with the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice (including the Office of Legal Counsel), the Department of State and the CIA.
Predator Drone FOIA | American Civil Liberties Union
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NEW YORK Targeted killings, including the use of drones, are increasingly used in ways that violate international law, according to a report out today by a U.N. expert on extrajudicial killings. The American Civil Liberties Union said the report underscores the alarming legal questions raised by the U.S. program of targeting and killing people including U.S. citizens sometimes far from any battlefield.
According to the report by U.N. special rapporteur Philip Alston, which will be presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council Thursday, while targeted killings may be permitted in armed conflict situations when used against combatants, fighters or civilians who directly engage in combat-like activities, they are increasingly being used far from any battlefield. The report states that "this strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other States can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial killings."
Alston also criticized the U.S. invocation of the "law of 9/11," which it uses to justify the use of force outside of armed-conflict zones as part of the so-called global war on terrorism. The report called for the United States and other countries to end the "accountability vacuum" by disclosing the full legal basis for targeted killings and specifically the measures in place to ensure wrongful killings are investigated, prosecuted and punished.
U.N. Expert Calls On U.S. To Halt CIA Targeted Killings | American Civil Liberties Union