{"id":19382,"date":"2010-06-08T08:43:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T12:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19382"},"modified":"2010-06-08T08:43:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T12:43:01","slug":"cias-drone-program-under-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19382","title":{"rendered":"CIA’s drone program under assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this morning’s Washington Post<\/a>, Mark Theissen warns that the United Nations and the American Civil Liberties Union are joining forces to end the CIA’s successful drone program in Afghanistan;<\/p>\n

The special rapporteur, Philip Alston, was joined in his condemnation by the American Civil Liberties Union, which in an April 28 letter to Obama, accused him of supporting a “program of long-premeditated and bureaucratized killing” and declared that the program “violates international law.” The ACLU wrote that “financiers, and other non-combat ‘supporters’ of hostile groups cannot be lawfully targeted with lethal force.” Yet that is precisely what Obama did in the case of Yazid.
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On The Post’s op-ed page Sunday, Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey called the killing of Yazid a “major blow” to al-Qaeda because “Yazid has essentially served as al-Qaeda’s ‘chief financial officer,’ coordinating the group’s fundraising and overseeing the distribution of money essential to its survival.” By the ACLU’s reasoning, this would make the strike that killed Yazid illegal. Does the ACLU want to see the Predator operator who took out al-Qaeda’s third in command prosecuted for murder? The ACLU has already gone after CIA interrogators — surreptitiously photographing these covert operatives and sharing the images with al-Qaeda terrorists in Guantanamo. CIA drone operators may soon be in for similar treatment. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, it frightens me that lawyers are trying to insinuate themselves into the role of war fighters. It’s impossible to hold warriors to a civilian legal standard during day-to-day operations when their crime is just doing their jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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