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Breaking: Obama Agrees To Release Documents About Drone Strikes That Targeted And Killed U.S. Citizens President Obama, who has championed lethal drone strikes as a major part of U.S. counter-terrorism efforts, bowed to pressure Wednesday and agreed to allow the Senate and House intelligence committees to review classified legal memos used to justify a drone strike against U.S. citizens in Yemen in 2011. Senators had demanded for months to see the Justice Department opinions that provided the White House legal authority to order the targeted killing of Anwar Awlaki, a New Mexico native who became an Al Qaeda leader, and his 16 year old son, Abdulrahman al-Aulaqi. Complaints by several Democrats over not receiving the documents had cast a shadow on the Senate confirmation hearing Thursday of John Brennan, the White House counter-terrorism advisor tapped to be CIA director. Sen. Ron Wyden said Obama had “assured me that all of the documents concerning the legal opinions on the targeted killing of Americans will immediately be made available” to the intelligence committees. Brennan is likely to face questions about the drone strikes that he oversaw in the last four years. Former U.S. officials say that, for a time, the intelligence community considered every military-age male killed in a CIA drone strike to have been a militant. Related: Pentagon And CIA Sued For Killing American Citizens With Drones
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Breaking: Obama Agrees To Release Documents About Drone Strikes That Targeted And Killed U.S. Citizens

President Obama, who has championed lethal drone strikes as a major part of U.S. counter-terrorism efforts, bowed to pressure Wednesday and agreed to allow the Senate and House intelligence committees to review classified legal memos used to justify a drone strike against U.S. citizens in Yemen in 2011.

Senators had demanded for months to see the Justice Department opinions that provided the White House legal authority to order the targeted killing of Anwar Awlaki, a New Mexico native who became an Al Qaeda leader, and his 16 year old son, Abdulrahman al-Aulaqi.

Complaints by several Democrats over not receiving the documents had cast a shadow on the Senate confirmation hearing Thursday of John Brennan, the White House counter-terrorism advisor tapped to be CIA director.

Sen. Ron Wyden said Obama had “assured me that all of the documents concerning the legal opinions on the targeted killing of Americans will immediately be made available” to the intelligence committees.

Brennan is likely to face questions about the drone strikes that he oversaw in the last four years.

Former U.S. officials say that, for a time, the intelligence community considered every military-age male killed in a CIA drone strike to have been a militant.

Related: Pentagon And CIA Sued For Killing American Citizens With Drones

Source: anarcho-queer

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