Obama to Publicly Justify Drone Strikes on US Citizens, Mystery NSA Surveillance to be Revealed by Wikileaks

From The West Wire

The Associated Press is reporting the Obama administration being poised to release a formal “justification,” detailing the circumstances in which the lethal force of drone strikes may be used against a United States Citizen.

The United States’ Drone program was founded by the most recent Bush administration, but has been greatly expanded under the watch of president Obama. The practice of eliminating enemy combatants through the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles has been allowed to flourish under the premise of aiding to the War on Terror, allthough it is often innocent bystanders which make up the majority of death tolls.

Countries where the US drone programs are active are certainly not alone in voicing their objection to the often unconscionable collateral damages of drone strikes. Last year, Germany made their voice very clear when they stated their rejection of using drone as a method of “policing” the world. Their opinion was so firmly-founded they forfeited the future orders of drones, planned to occur over the course of the next four years.

Tied into the issue of drone killings, is the use of NSA-collected to fuel the targeting of terrorists abroad. The NSA has been using metadata and location data to provided instructions for US drone’s deadly force. Without boots on the ground, providing visual confirmation of target identity, the metadata collected by the NSA has been the sole intelligence used to guide the killing of predator drones in many cases. That means that

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