Obama to Reveal Legal Rationale for Killing U.S. Citizens Abroad by Drones

Édité par Juan Leandro
2014-05-21 13:31:52

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Washington, May 21 (RHC)-- The Barack Obama administration says it will release the secret government memo that authorizes the killings of Americans overseas.

A U.S. federal appeals court ordered the memo’s disclosure last month following a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union and The New York Times seeking the legal basis of U.S. drone strikes.

The lawsuit came after the U.S. killed the American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman, and Samir Khan in Yemen, despite having never charged any of them with a crime.

The White House decided not to appeal the ruling after several senators vowed to hold up a judicial nomination of the memo’s author, David Barron. But the memo’s release will be delayed as the administration redacts extensive portions it says contain classified information.

 

 



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