{"id":6321,"date":"2012-09-19T05:42:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=6321"},"modified":"2012-09-19T05:42:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:42:26","slug":"from-npr-aclu-pushes-for-answers-on-drone-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/19\/from-npr-aclu-pushes-for-answers-on-drone-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"(from NPR)  &#8216;ACLU Pushes For Answers On Drone Strikes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 Drone strikes ordered by the Obama administration have killed more than a dozen al-Qaida leaders around the world, in places ranging from Afghanistan to Somalia. In speeches and public appearances, U.S. officials say those attacks are legal and essential to protect the nation&#8217;s security.<\/p>\n<p>But when civil liberties groups asked for more information about targeted killing, the CIA told them it&#8217;s a secret.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, they&#8217;ll square off in front of a federal appeals court in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Jameel Jaffer of the American Civil Liberties Union calls the targeted killing strategy &#8220;the centerpiece of the Obama administration&#8217;s counterterrorism policies.&#8221; But when Jaffer asked the CIA some questions about its use of drones two years ago, the agency said it could neither confirm nor deny it had any relevant information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TO READ\/LISTEN TO THE STORY CLICK THE IMAGE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/npr\/161375879\/aclu-pushes-for-answers-on-drone-strikes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6322\" title=\"drone_13406143\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/drone_13406143_wide-64d5a13f879cea28fcf8e756a9ebebd8fba1673c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/drone_13406143_wide-64d5a13f879cea28fcf8e756a9ebebd8fba1673c.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/drone_13406143_wide-64d5a13f879cea28fcf8e756a9ebebd8fba1673c-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 Drone strikes ordered by the Obama administration have killed more than a dozen al-Qaida leaders around the world, in places ranging from Afghanistan to Somalia. In speeches and public appearances, U.S. officials say those attacks are legal and essential to protect the nation&#8217;s security. But when civil liberties groups asked for more information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6324,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions\/6324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}