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Top State Dept Lawyer Defends Legality of Drone Strikes
March 29, 2010 5:00 PM http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/03/state-department-lawyer-defends-legality-drone-strikes-against-terror-targets.html
ABC News' Kirit Radia reports:
In a little noticed speech last week, State Dept. Legal Advisor Harold Koh for the first time outlined, and ardently defended, the legal basis for the use of lethal drone attacks against terror targets.
In a keynote address to the American Society of International Law on March 25, Koh says “that it is the considered view of this Administration—and it has certainly been my experience during my time as Legal Adviser—that U.S. targeting practices, including lethal operations conducted with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, comply with all applicable law, including the laws of war.”
Koh, a former human rights lawyer and dean of Yale Law, argues that drone attacks are justified in the interest of national self-defense against terror targets.
“As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qaeda, as well as the Taliban and associated forces, in response to the horrific 9/11 attacks, and may use force consistent with its inherent right to self-defense under international law… As recent events have shown, al-Qaeda has not abandoned its intent to attack the United States, and indeed continues to attack us. Thus, in this ongoing armed conflict, the United States has the authority under international law, and the responsibility to its citizens, to use force, including lethal force, to defend itself, including by targeting persons such as high-level al-Qaeda leaders who are planning attacks,” he said. more...
Former Human Rights Lawyer?????
FDR and Eisenhower are turning in their graves . . . I bet that even Nixon is P.O.d.
We have got to NOT be afraid.
We have GOT to be strong.
And now for something completely different:
Event Horizon: War on Physics?by Sean Gonsalves
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/05-3
Does the American Enterprise Institute, or a member thereof, really want to bomb the LHC? Follow the link...
Yeah, thom opines the Pres. is playing chess, or that kind of karate, whaddaya call it.. but i dunno...
Is it really so "very, very, ugly" that donations to Rethuglicans will now be split between the RNC and this new PAC? I don't see it that way. I say that it should be our hope that right wing money will be divided to flow in as many different directions as possible, while the left supports single candidates. When I step into the voting booth in November, I want to see the same name on Rows B (Democratic) and D (Liberal), and different names on Rows A (Republican), C (Conservative), E (Right-To-Life), F(Tea Party), and maybe even a few other rows for the Cons to choose from.
Let THEM try to herd cats for a change!
@ Zero G & Richard,
You're absolutely right on. The current admin is blessing and legitimizing the previous four administrations and their pro-corporate agenda. Corporate America loves a Republican in Democratic clothing, white washing the lunacy of Republican doctrine by stamping OK with a rubbery Democratic stance.
Even FDR was supposed to be a Corporate schill, really pissed off a lot of his class by standing for the common man.
The system is rigged, don't know how it will be changed, even by those who try to work within it.
they say marijuana hinders your short term....um..... I just got a new toothbrush.
@Zero: :D
“By God we are going to hit the marijuana thing, and I want to hit it right square in the puss, I want to find a way of putting more on that.” - Chairman RMN
“You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.” - Chairman RMN
@Zero:
Silly me, mispeling cannabis...
DLC Democrats are often more dangerous to the nation than their GOPher predecessors, ei. Clinton pushed through NAFTA, the repeal of Glass-Stiegel, welfare deform, and increased cannibis enforcement policies...
Obama has continued the use of the US Constitution as just so much toilet paper.
Siegelman would have never been victimized if not for the spread-legs press.
Except when Rove is screwing you hardly notice.
"the Constitution?...Eric Holder in abeyance." -harry ashburn
Third Term o' GWB: AG the AG replace by Eric "Human rights are such the bother" Holder . . .
What f'ing retard is standing in the way of doing those things, Don, hmmm?
@Harry
That's where Satan does his best recruiting...
Hey Robert S./ Zero G. Yeah, your photo looks different, too.
You may have to go back to your "account" and update it to get Zero G back, tho i didnt have to do anything.
Did Rahm Emanuel leave Don Siegelman to Karl Rove's wolves?
Revealed: Rahm Emanuel Nixed DOJ Review of Political Prosecutions of Don Siegelman and Paul MinorBy Brendan DeMelle
March 25, 2010
http://www.pdamerica.org/articles/news/2010-03-25-11-46-55-news.php
Somehow, with the new format I am the poster formerly known as Zero G...
The drug war exception to the Fourth Amendment goes back to Richard Nixon, who coined the phrase "war on drugs."
Maria Bartiromo extolling integrity is like Satan extolling regular church attendance.
She says "you won;t be successful unless you have integrity." :D
@mstaggerlee: Senator Lieberman negotiated to produce Richard Nixon’s Health Insurance Plan for the DLC Whitehouse this year . . .
Senator Grumpy Grampy “Get off my lawn” is making statements that he has real jack-booted authoritarian bone fides because Hayworth is way more insane than he BUT he is an untamed pony . . .