CovOps
Location : Ether-Sphere Job/hobbies : Irrationality Exterminator Humor : Über Serious
| Subject: Statist slime: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Ruling Lets Feds Keep Mum on Targeted-Killing Wed Jan 02, 2013 7:26 pm | |
| The President Barack Obama administration does not have to disclose the legal basis for its drone targeted killing program of Americans, according to a Wednesday decision a judge likened to “Alice in Wonderland”.
U.S. District Court Judge Colleen McMahon of New York, ruling in lawsuits brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and The New York Times, said she was caught in a “paradoxical situation” (.pdf) of allowing the administration to claim it was legal to kill enemies outside traditional combat zones while keeping the legal rational secret.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/alice-in-wonderland-drone-ruling/ |
|