The ACLU says on its blog that it has filed a lawsuit under the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking information on a
"targeted killing program" which relies heavily on the use of UAVs.
The ACLU says that while its suit overlaps one filed by the New
York Times, they are also seeking "the government’s
evidentiary basis for strikes that killed three Americans in Yemen
in the fall of 2011."
According to the ACLU blog, the suit stems from an incident last
September in which two U.S. born Taliban were killed in a UAV
attack in Yemen. A third U.S.-born person was killed in a separate
attack a week later. "The administration has not adequately
explained the legal basis for these strikes, and it has not
explained the factual basis, either," the organization says.
The ACLU says that it sent FOIA requests shortly after it
learned of the attacks, and was told that it was requesting records
that "the CIA can neither confirm or deny" even exist.
The ACLU notes that President Obama has defended the program as
recently as last week in an internet interview. It says that the
administration's additude is "self serving," and that if it going
to release bits of information related to the program for political
or other purpuses, it can't continue to deny that such programs
exist. "The public has a right to know the evidence and legal basis
for the deliberate targeted killing of U.S. citizens," the
organization says.
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