New Guidelines for Drone Killings: But Pak exempt from New Guidelines

[Razor]

CIA's free reign on targeted killing: Pakistan exempted from agency's drone 'playbook'

A new CIA manual that limits the agency's ability to use drones and creates strict guidelines for targeted killings is being finalized. Pakistan was exempted from these restrictions in a compromise between the CIA, State Department and the Pentagon.

The manual sets out stricter standards and rigid rules for the use of US drones. Some of the guidelines include requirements for White House approval of drone strikes and the involvement of multiple agencies, such as the State Department, in adding new names to kill lists.
However, none of these stringent rules apply to US drone attacks in Pakistan, which started under President George W. Bush.

The CIA is currently required to give advance warning to the US ambassador to Pakistan on upcoming strikes, but that rule is rarely followed, the Washington Post reported; the agency effectively has total control over both the drone strikes and what names are added to assassination lists.
This exemption would allow the US to continue its most controversial drone strikes in Pakistan without oversight for over a year, or longer.

According to reports, the completed 'playbook,' work on which began last summer, will be submitted to Obama for final approval within weeks, and will guide Washington's targeted killing program during Obama's second term.
This would be the first document of its kind to legalize and institutionalize targeted killings. It includes a process for adding names to kill lists, sets out rules for when US citizens can be targeted overseas, and specifies procedures for when the CIA or US military can carry out drone strikes outside war zones.

The US has stepped up the use of targeted killings in Pakistan in the past few years. Since 2004, an estimated 310 out of 362 drone strikes in the country were launched under Obama, according to the UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism. The strikes have killed up to 3,461 people, 891 of whom were identified as civilians.
The Pakistani government has criticized the Obama administration for the drone strikes, arguing the attacks are a violation of their sovereignty.

The CIA has escalated its use of drones in Pakistan in the first weeks of 2013, launching seven deadly strikes during the first 10 days of the new year, which killed at least 40 people, 11 of whom may have been civilians.
This has raised speculation that the Obama administration is accelerating attacks in the run-up to the planned 2014 withdrawal from Afghanistan, over fears of losing the capacity to carry them out.

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[sayareakd]

Re: New Guidelines for Drone Killings: But Pak exempt from New Guideli

few things, since US has given legal sanction to this illegal killing, which is murder without trial, kets suppose innocent Indian citizen is killed due to these attack, then question is will the President of US be charged for murder since he knowingly sanction the hit without due process of law?

All the citizens of Pakistan is under clear and present danger and their life is at the wims and fancy of US President if Pakistanis like it or not their death warrant has been signed or waiting to be signed from death from the sky.

It also mean that soverignity and law has gone to gutter in Pakistan. UD can rape any Pakistan at will by just press of button. Did i hear one Pak member saying they won the war and US has withdrawn from the region. From the looks of it death from drown is only going to increase with click of button.

 

[hit&run]

Re: New Guidelines for Drone Killings: But Pak exempt from New Guideli

Pakistan is America's 'mundoo'. They will treat it like feudal lords treat their minions.

Good one USA.