 Obama, the former University of Chicago constituional law professor... jz ____ Obama To Approve Drone Assassination ManualBy Patrick Martin (about the author) PermalinkOpEdNews Op Eds |
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President Obama is about to sign off on a manual that will institutionalize the process by which the White House orders and approves killings by remote-controlled drones, according to a report Sunday.
The so-called counterterrorism "playbook" will define the circumstances under which the CIA and the military's Special Forces Command, the two agencies that operate drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and other parts of the Middle East and Africa, may use lethal force.
The front-page article in the Washington Post amounts to a semi-official announcement by the White House and is based on statements by unnamed government officials. Its publication, on the same day that Obama officially took the oath of office for his second term as president, demonstrates the role of his administration as an instrument of the military-intelligence apparatus.
The so-called counterterrorism "playbook" will define the circumstances under which the CIA and the military's Special Forces Command, the two agencies that operate drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and other parts of the Middle East and Africa, may use lethal force.
The front-page article in the Washington Post amounts to a semi-official announcement by the White House and is based on statements by unnamed government officials. Its publication, on the same day that Obama officially took the oath of office for his second term as president, demonstrates the role of his administration as an instrument of the military-intelligence apparatus.
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Murder
Inc.
The Assassination
Manual
By Paul
Pillar
Writing this kind of manual
represents the institutionalization of worldwide assassinations as a regular,
ongoing business of the United States government.
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