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How many of you even know this is going on? Didn't hear it on the MSM now did you? Think it would be so silent if this were GWB? Doesn't bother you? Then get in line and march in step.
ACLU Challenges Governments "Fiction of Deniability" on Use of Drones for Targeted Killing
On Friday, the ACLU asked the federal district court in Washington, D.C. to reject the Central Intelligence Agency's argument that it cannot provide any information in response to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request about the use of drones for targeted killing. Last March, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit called the CIA's refusal to confirm or deny whether it even possessed records responsive to the FOIA request "indefensible," and it rebuked the agency for constructing "a fiction of deniability that no reasonable person would regard as plausible."
ACLU Litigation
Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta: On July 18, 2012, the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit challenging the governments targeted killing of three U.S. citizens in drone strikes far from any armed conflict zone. The suit charges that the U.S. governments killings of U.S. citizens Anwar Al-Aulaqi, Samir Khan, and 16-year-old Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi in Yemen in 2011 violated the Constitutions fundamental guarantee against the deprivation of life without due process of law.
ACLU Challenges Governments "Fiction of Deniability" on Use of Drones for Targeted Killing
On Friday, the ACLU asked the federal district court in Washington, D.C. to reject the Central Intelligence Agency's argument that it cannot provide any information in response to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request about the use of drones for targeted killing. Last March, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit called the CIA's refusal to confirm or deny whether it even possessed records responsive to the FOIA request "indefensible," and it rebuked the agency for constructing "a fiction of deniability that no reasonable person would regard as plausible."
ACLU Litigation
Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta: On July 18, 2012, the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit challenging the governments targeted killing of three U.S. citizens in drone strikes far from any armed conflict zone. The suit charges that the U.S. governments killings of U.S. citizens Anwar Al-Aulaqi, Samir Khan, and 16-year-old Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi in Yemen in 2011 violated the Constitutions fundamental guarantee against the deprivation of life without due process of law.