Court Releases DOJ Memo Justifying Drone Strike On US Citizen

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 23, 2014 @10:30AM from the new-rules dept.

An anonymous reader writes in with news that the memo presenting a case for killing Anwar al-Awlaki has been released thanks to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday released a secret 2010 Justice Department memo justifying the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S citizen killed in a drone strike in 2011. The court released the document as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by The New York Times and the American Civil Liberties Union to make the document public. Then-acting Assistant Attorney General David Barron, in the partially redacted 41-page memo, outlines the justification of the drone strike in Yemen to take out al-Awlaki, an alleged operational leader of al Qaeda.

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Re:Yeah sure by Anonymous Coward · 2014-06-23 11:42 · Score: 0, Troll

How about all the other things they have done you effeminate pansy? Saving lives, rescuing people, preventing conflict, humanitarian aide.
Regardless, it is only because of the american fighting man that you are free to complain that your nappy hasn't been changed in the last 5 minutes since you pooped yourself.