What is "classic Obama" is this Administration's willingness to say what is not true, and pretend that what exists, does not. The Libyan rape and murder of our Ambassador is a case in point. So too, is the CIA's drone policy. We all know they have and use them, but they pretend that we don't know, so the ACLU has to take them to court to prove what we already know. Geeeeesh.
The American Civil Liberties Union will go to court on
Thursday (9/20/12) in an attempt to get the CIA to hand over documents related
to Barack Obama's controversial "targeted killing" program that uses
unmanned drones to strike suspected Islamic militants.
The program has been repeatedly referenced in public by numerous senior officials, including by Obama himself and defense secretary Leon Panetta, but the spy agency has refused to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request from the civil liberties group because it says it will not confirm the secretive use of drones.
As a result the ACLU has gone to court to argue that the CIA cannot deny the existence of a program that has been so widely reported, including in great detail in off-the-record briefings by administration and agency officials.
The program has been repeatedly referenced in public by numerous senior officials, including by Obama himself and defense secretary Leon Panetta, but the spy agency has refused to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request from the civil liberties group because it says it will not confirm the secretive use of drones.
As a result the ACLU has gone to court to argue that the CIA cannot deny the existence of a program that has been so widely reported, including in great detail in off-the-record briefings by administration and agency officials.
Primary source: Live Link
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