COMMENTARY
As The World Burns Around Me … WHO AM I ?
TLB Note: What you are about to read will surely never be very popular or widely shared by most Americans … But that does not make it any less shameful or … any less true! […]
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GOVERNMENT
The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program
By: Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes – an unreliable […]
GOVERNMENT
Air Force Removes Drone Airstrike Number From Summary
As scrutiny and debate over the use of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) by the American military increased last month, the Air Force reversed a policy of sharing the number of airstrikes launched from RPAs in […]
GOVERNMENT
Eric Holder: Drone Strikes Against Americans on U.S. Soil are Legal
Attorney General Eric Holder can imagine a scenario in which it would be constitutional to carry out a drone strike against an American on American soil, he wrote in a letter to Sen. Rand Paul, […]
GOVERNMENT
Obama Officials Refuse to Say if Assassination Power Extends to US Soil
The Justice Department “white paper” purporting to authorize Obama’s power to extrajudicially execute US citizens was leaked three weeks ago. Since then, the administration – including the president himself and his nominee to lead the […]
GOVERNMENT
American Drone Deaths Highlight Controversy
Of the scores of people dubbed terrorists and taken out by American military drone strikes, three men — all killed in the fall of 2011 — were U.S. citizens. And their lives illustrate the complexity […]
GOVERNMENT
White House Wins Fight to Keep Drone Killings of Americans Secret
A federal judge issued a 75-page ruling on Wednesday that declares that the US Justice Department does not have a legal obligation to explain the rationale behind killing Americans with targeted drone strikes. United States […]