US Seeks Redactions In Drone Strike Memo Ruling
Source: Associated Press
Jun. 6, 2014 11:58 AM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) The U.S. government wants to give the public less information about its legal justification for using drones to kill Americans suspected of terrorism overseas.
The Justice Department, Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency made the request late Thursday to a federal appeals court in Manhattan.
The government says there could be "exceptionally grave harm to national security" if it cannot make further redactions in a document that a court ordered released in April.
The case relates to a Freedom of Information request by The New York Times and the American Civil Liberties Union. Lawyers for the Times and ACLU said Friday that the government's continued delays regarding the document are cheating the public of a fully informed and fair debate over the issue.
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Maedhros
(10,007 posts)How else can the electorate decide if this is the right thing for the Government to do?
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)The tyrants (Dems AND GOP) aren't even pretending now.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)That's about it.