PM's daughter takes on CIA over torture operations !!!

nrj

Ambassador
Joined
Nov 16, 2009
Messages
9,658
Likes
3,911
Country flag
Obama Will Explain When It's Okay to Kill Americans, But He's Only Telling a Few Senators

Lawmakers have been demanding to see the Obama administration's justification for the use of armed drones on Americans suspected of terrorism for more than a year, but the administration hadn't even officially acknowledged that the documents exist.

On Wednesday President Obama finally directed the Justice Department to make them available to the Congressional Intelligence Committees. An administration official explained that this is just "part of the president's ongoing commitment to consult with Congress on national security matters." Certainly it had nothing to do with members of Congress suggesting that they would hold up the confirmation of John Brennan as CIA chief if the administration refused to turn over the documents.

The controversy escalated this week after a white paper outlining the administration's legal rationale for targeting Americans in drone attacks was leaked by NBC News. On Thursday morning the committees will receive a longer and more detailed memo from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel that justifies the killing of New Mexico-born Al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in 2011.

Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told the New York Times that President Obama called him on Wednesday evening and said that "effective immediately he was going to make the legal opinions available and he also hoped that there could be a broader conversation." Though, not too broad. As Christopher Anders, senior legislative counsel for the ACLU, noted, the document won't be shared with the Armed Services Committees or the Judiciary Committees, which also oversee agencies involved in the drone program. Anders said the public should be able to see at least some parts of the memo as well, since "Everyone has a right to know when the government believes it can kill Americans and others."

Obama might have temporarily defused one of the most contentious issues raised by Brennan's nomination, but Congress still has plenty to grill him about. Brennan was involved in the Bush administration's use of harsh interrogation techniques and is a witness in two investigations into national security leaks under the Obama administraion. Plus, the targeting of American suspected of terrorism is far from the only questionable aspect of the drone program.

nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/02/obama-explains-when-its-okay-to-kill-americans.html

Sent via Tapatalk from a galaxy far far away
 

Ray

The Chairman
Professional
Joined
Apr 17, 2009
Messages
43,132
Likes
23,834
Why is everyone including his own family making life hell for MMS?

His condition reminds me of the ad where the Minister is being harassed by all, the woman on the street, his driver, his servant, his wife and finally the wife!

And the ad shows that the poor politician shutting himself in h is room, but cower and falls in a huddle since the TV also questions him!

Leave the man alone.

He presided and the UPA Empire crumbled.

Not his doing.

But he was the fall guy, the stool pigeon and the cats paw.

Go after the real goats and not the scapegoats!
 
Last edited:

W.G.Ewald

Defence Professionals/ DFI member of 2
Professional
Joined
Sep 28, 2011
Messages
14,139
Likes
8,594
Re: PM's daughter blows whistle on 54 nations that helped US detention

In an exhaustive 214-page report released Tuesday, Singh, currently a senior legal officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative, has exposed 54 countries that helped facilitate the Central Intelligence Agency's secret detention, rendition, and interrogation program in the years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Amrit Singh | Open Society Foundations (OSF)




Amrit Singh joined the Open Society Justice Initiative in 2009 as the senior legal officer for national security and counterterrorism.

Previously, she served as a staff attorney at the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project. She was counsel, among other cases, in ACLU v. Dep't of Defense, which resulted in the public disclosure of thousands of documents concerning the abuse of prisoners held by the U.S. overseas. She is co-author (with Jameel Jaffer) of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2007).

Prior to joining the ACLU, Singh served as a law clerk to the Hon. Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Before embarking on her legal career, she was an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of Cambridge University, Oxford University, and the Yale Law School.
 

W.G.Ewald

Defence Professionals/ DFI member of 2
Professional
Joined
Sep 28, 2011
Messages
14,139
Likes
8,594
Re: PM's daughter blows whistle on 54 nations that helped US detention

Open Society Foundations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The network of Open Society Foundations or OSF (named Open Society Institute or OSI until 2011), is a grantmaking operation started by George Soros, aimed to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform.
George Soros - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As of March 12, 2012 Forbes listed Soros, at 81, as the 22nd richest person in the world, the world's richest hedge-fund manager, and number 7 on its list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, with a net worth estimated at $20 billion.[90] Soros has given away $8 billion to various causes since 1979
 

Global Defence

New threads

Articles

Top