The Coming Drone Attack On America
Drones on domestic surveillance duties are already deployed by police
and corporations. In time, they will likely be weaponised
By Naomi Wolf
By 2020, it is estimated that as many as 30,000 drones will be in use
in US domestic airspace.
January 02, 2012
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33503.htm
Why We Hate Them: Arabs in Western Eyes
A new PBS documentary reveals how films and other media have shaped
an anti-Muslim narrative.
By Philip Giraldi
January 02, 2012
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33509.htm
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/02-12
Published on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 by Common Dreams
Details of Obama 'Kill List' to Remain in the Shadows, Court Rules
Federal court rejects Freedom Of Information request
- Jacob Chamberlain, staff writer
Information surrounding the targeted killing of three American
citizens by US drones in Yemen will remain secret for now, following
a federal court decision to turn down a Freedom of Information Act
lawsuit filed by the ACLU.
The information, requested from the Department of Justice by the
ACLU, includes a legal memorandum which allegedly gives legal and
factual justification for the extrajudicial killings of U.S. citizens
Anwar Al-Awlaki and Samir Khan in September 2011, and Al-Awlaki's
16-year-old son Abdulrahman in October 2011. Anwar Al-Awlaki was
placed on Obama's executive "Kill List."
"This ruling denies the public access to crucial information about
the government's extrajudicial killing of U.S. citizens and also
effectively green-lights its practice of making selective and
self-serving disclosures," said Jameel Jaffer, ACLU deputy legal
director. "As the judge acknowledges, the targeted killing program
raises profound questions about the appropriate limits on government
power in our constitutional democracy. The public has a right to know
more about the circumstances in which the government believes it can
lawfully kill people, including U.S. citizens, who are far from any
battlefield and have never been charged with a crime."
The ruling, made in the Southern District of New York court, also
included the denial of a similar FOIA request made by the New York
Times.
The ACLU plans to appeal the decision; however, the D.C. Circuit
Court of Appeals is also considering a separate ACLU FOIA lawsuit for
other information surrounding the Obama administration's targeted
killing program in general, "including its legal basis, scope, and
number of civilian casualties caused by drone strikes."
On the killings, the Center for Constitutional Rights explains:
On September 30, 2011, U.S. strikes killed Anwar Al-Aulaqi, along
with Samir Khan and three others. Two weeks later, the U.S. launched
another drone strike at an open-air restaurant in Yemen, killing
Anwar Al-Aulaqi's son, Abdulrahman, and six other civilian
bystanders, including another teenager. These killings, undertaken
without due process, in circumstances where lethal force was not a
last resort to address a specific, concrete and imminent threat, and
where the government failed to take required measures to protect
bystanders, rises to a violation of the most elementary
constitutional right afforded to all U.S. citizens - deprivation of
life without due process of law.
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