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White House wins fight to keep drone killings of Americans secret [message #31306] Thu, 03 January 2013 09:25
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A federal judge issued a 75-page ruling on Wednesday that declares that the US Justice Department does not have a legal obligation to explain the rationale behind killing Americans with targeted drone strikes.

United States District Court Judge Colleen McMahon wrote in her finding this week that the Obama administration was largely in the right by rejecting Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and The New York Times for materials pertaining to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to execute three US citizens abroad in late 2011.

Full article: http://rt.com/usa/news/drone-kill-mcmahon-obama-245/


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