Posted on 03/16/2010 5:09:14 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
ACLU sues gov't over drones
By JEN DIMASCIO | 3/16/10 7:14 PM EDT
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: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34529.html#ixzz0iO6u2229
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In particular, the lawsuit asks for information that their terrorist allies can use to minimize the effects of drone strikes. No thanks, but I'd rather win this war.
Notice how quiet these POSes are when it comes to health care, or the banks, or the auto companies. Just more scum that must be cleaned up.
Truly, this is becoming bizarro world.
I guess it would be better if we carpet bombed entire villages to kill the war lords.
Or maybe it would be better to go in with a squadron of Apache Helicopters to wipe out these terrorist. Drones are just too efficient.
Did the ALCU run out of small businessmen to sue or something? Now they have to branch out in to being the guardian demons of terrorist.
Your question presupposes that at one time, they were at odds with each other. I've seen no evidence to support such supposition.
We ought to train the drones on the ACLU.
There is the possibility that the ACLU may of opposed Al-Queda when they fought the Peaceful Soviets forces occupying Afghanistan in 1979.
Yep, that's right. My mistake.
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Dateline 1943
ACLU sues navy for information on location of U S submarines in the Pacific.
Oh by the way I will send money to the ACLU should they ever support a gun rights case.
Um, when wasn’t ACLU on Al Qaeda’s side? And before that, all other enemies of Americans?
I guess they are now the Al-Queda Civil Liberties Union.
Enemies of the American People
Just how does the ACLU have “standing” in this case?
In a counter motion, lawyer for the Defense Department asked to be supplied with precise GPS coordinates of the ACLU’s lawyers professional offices and homes.
Additional link:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2010/03/aclu_files_lawsuit_for_informa.php
“ACLU files lawsuit for information on US Predator program”
By BILL ROGGIO
March 16, 2010 7:32 PM
SNIPPET: “The American Civil Liberties Union has followed up its Freedom of Information Act request that was filed in January seeking information on the US Predator program. Today, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the the Defense Department, the State Department, and the Justice Department, demanding enforcement of its January request for information on the program. The full press release release from the ACLU is below:”
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