Federal Judge Looks at Releasing New Documents Regarding Obama’s Targeted Assassination Program


This would not be the first time Judge McMahon has called out the government. Previously she wrote in the case of the Newburgh Four where she said that the FBI “created acts of terrorism out of his fantasies of bravado and bigotry, and then made those fantasies come true.”

This time Judge McMahon has expressed that the government take the time to vet their opinions and orders on all the documents not containing information that is considered classified to be made clear to the public in a routinely manner.

Truth and action has reported in the past of the first time this program was brought to court concerning the U.S. citizen terror suspects who were assasinted via disposition matrix, and never brought to stand trial. Read more here.

The Activist post reports what the ACLU has gone through to further expose this tyrannical move on the governments part.

The first document relates to the Presidential Policy Guidance, or PPG, “a classified record that sets out the law and policy that the government must follow when it carries out targeted killings,” according to the ACLU. President Obama issued the PPG in May 2013, but did not make the document public, instead only releasing some of its most general standards.

The ACLU writes:

Those vague standards raise as many questions as they answer: When does an individual pose a “continuing and imminent threat” to the United States? How does the government decide when capture of a target is “feasible”? What informs the government’s determination that there is a “near certainty that non-combatants will not be injured or killed”? As the government has described it, the PPG answers these questions. And as we’ve argued to the court, the government has no right to withhold this kind of document — one that regulates government officials by providing substantive and procedural rules that govern their actions — from the public.

The other two documents are reports from the Department of Defense which were submitted to Congress in 2014. The two reports detail the legal and policy standards of the PPG, as well as an assessment of groups that the U.S. government is waging war against. The reports also explain the legal differences between “associated forces,” “affiliates,” and “adherents” of al-Qaeda.

Without being able to read the standards by which the U.S. government is running their lethal program the public will remain in the dark. The public also deserves to know under which legal authority the U.S. government believes it is operating.

The ACLU states that Judge McMahon indicated that “a final decision would likely arrive in the next several months.”

Source:ActivistPost



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