A three-judge panel at the US Circuit Court for the District of Columbia has reacted with skepticism to the CIA’s claims of secrecy in response to ACLU requests for information related to the use of drone strikes worldwide.
Judge Merrick Garland in particular seemed baffled by the CIA’s claim that it can neither “confirm or deny the existence” of the program, citing speeches by a number of Obama Administration officials including John Brennan where they openly acknowledged and defended the program.
Assistant Attorney General Stuart Delery rejected Garland’s questions, saying that Brennan’s comments “aren’t sufficient” to prove that the CIA is involved in the drone program because the US has several other spy agencies.
The ACLU has been seeking information related to the program since January 2010 through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, which have inevitably led to lawsuits as not only has the Obama Administration refused to turn over documents, but have refused to admit that the documents even exist.
How interesting that the "O" adm., uses the same type of legal obfuscations that were the bulwark of law which condoned slavery for more than two centuries in America……
The US does not fire drone missiles. Israel does not have nuclear weapons. Iran is days away from destroying the planet. Oh yes, and my favorite: Hillary C is looking more beautiful than ever, almost as hot as Madeline Albright.
Wasn't Obama a lawyer? Seems he learned his trade well and knows all the tricks to avoid the law!
He is an artful deceiver. He promised change but he didn't say it was to the laws of the nation. He is ruling like an old King, using his absolute power unwisely.
It's time he was beheaded!
Is it not more than a little naive to expect this full fledged police state to comply with such information requests. Would you trust whatever material they produced? These barbarian Northern European empires like the Vikings and Mongols, the Dutch, British, Russian, and American, they do have a democracy fetish, but it is never quite real. It is just one of the tribal prejudices that they try to ram down the throats of ling-civilized people who know better. Democracy is just part of their tribal culture like their preference for public nudity, binge drinking as high culture, and rule by women. They never really settle down to stable society but fuel their on-going prosperity by attacking and enslaving nation after nation abroad.
Let's praise Obama's transparency.
I s Obama George W Bush's lost brother from the Third Reich years at Yale?
My favorites are this is the best country in the whole free world with the highest standards of morals and ethics except for those gay commie, pinko, faggot, socialist anarchist union $%^&*(s because discussion is so free in America as long as we don't discuss anything or one of importance.
Smirnoff Says: Sorry comrades exile in Soviet gulag had gardening fishing and hunting American gulag is scientific experiment to obtain blood from stone in biological genetic study social darwinism, and how to get a 8 day work week from 7 day week in 25 hours of a 24 hour day.
Try Mussolini at least he had Opera and pizza.
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