People shout slogans during a protest rally against U.S. drone strikes in central Pakistan's Multan on January 8, 2013. At least eight people were killed and four others injured in two separate U.S. drone strikes. | Xinhua/MCT
Obama Urged To Reveal Legal Linchpins For Drone Killings -- McClatchy News
WASHINGTON — Ten civil and human rights organizations are urging President Barack Obama to make good on a pledge to disclose more details of the administration’s targeted killing program by making public the secret legal foundations for drone strikes, ensuring congressional oversight and creating ways of tracking and responding to civilian casualties.
The organizations’ call comes as the administration and Congress are beginning to examine the creation of a “legal architecture” to guide future drone strikes, and the White House is considering ending CIA drone operations and shifting them to the Pentagon.
The United States should “take essential steps to ensure meaningful transparency and legal compliance with regard to U.S. targeted killing policies and practices,” the groups said in a “statement of shared concerns” they sent to Obama on Thursday and made public on Friday.
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My Comment: This is not going to happen. The White House is now doing everything possible to not disclose it's legal reasoning behind it's drone - strike program. To do so would open it up to legal interpretation as well as .... and this is what scares them .... to be used against them in a Hague war crimes investigation. In this case .... secrecy is their ally.
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