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Trump's Secret Rules for Drone Strikes and Presidents' Unchecked License to Kill
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agodirect ACLU link: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-comment-release-trump-administration-lethal-force-rules https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-comment-release-tru...
- samizdis 6y ago> In short, the Trump rules served as open-ended authorization for the United States to kill virtually anyone it designates as a terrorist threat, anywhere in the world, without reference to the laws prohibiting extrajudicial killing under human rights law. The Trump rules may seem more extreme but in core ways they merely continue an unlawful U.S. extrajudicial killing program that is now a cornerstone of the “forever wars” that President Biden has pledged to end.