{"id":43222,"date":"2014-06-23T14:41:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/23\/but-they-were-all-bad-except-the-occasional-innocent-civilian.html"},"modified":"2014-06-24T08:34:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T14:34:47","slug":"but-they-were-all-bad-except-the-occasional-innocent-civilian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/23\/but-they-were-all-bad-except-the-occasional-innocent-civilian.html","title":{"rendered":"But they were all BAD (except the occasional innocent civilian)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Apparently the legal justification memo for the use of drone strikes is "Congress authorized a War on Terror, and wartime lets us do things that include civilian casualties, so we can pretty much use drones to kill whomever we want, wherever we want, but trust us that we'll only use this power wisely … but for God's sake, don't make this justification public because it would look bad."<\/p>\n

Sigh.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cCivilian casualties\u201d authorized under secret US drone-strike memo<\/a>
\n US justifies killings as acts of war despite civilian deaths, global precedent.\n <\/p>\n

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Apparently the legal justification memo for the use of drone strikes is "Congress authorized a War on Terror, and wartime lets us do things that include civilian casualties, so we can pretty much use drones to kill whomever we want, wherever we want, but trust us that we'll only use this power wisely … but … Continue reading “But they were all BAD (except the occasional innocent civilian)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132626,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/24\/trumps-alt-truth-on-the-federal-workforce.html","url_meta":{"origin":43222,"position":0},"title":"Trump's Alt-Truth on the Federal Workforce","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 24-Jan-17 10:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not surprisingly, Trump -- in freezing hiring of federal workers -- is relying on, um, apparently made-up understandings of the federal workforce growth. 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