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Today, ProPublica published an important and illuminating and accompanying that demonstrates just how duplicitous the government is being regarding the CIA鈥檚 targeted killing program.

As we鈥檝e argued in our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records about the CIA鈥檚 use of drones to carry out targeted killings around the world, the government continues to claim that it can neither confirm nor deny whether it even has a drone-strike program at all, despite the numerous public statements of government officials discussing the CIA鈥檚 drone program. This is an untenable position, and next Thursday, we will be making that argument before the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C.

It can be hard to express how truly absurd the government鈥檚 position is, but the 鈥攂ased on a database compiled by the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 stellar former intern, Emma Schindler鈥攈ighlights the irreconcilable disconnect between the voluminous and continuous statements of government officials, in both public speeches and statements to the press, acknowledging the CIA鈥檚 use of drones to carry out targeted killings, and its ongoing attempt to tell the courts that its drone program is so secret that it cannot admit to its existence in the first place.

ProPublica鈥檚 new feature illustrates, in interactive form, the cascade of nearly two hundred statements by named and unnamed current and former government officials during President Obama鈥檚 first term acknowledging and, often, boasting of the drone-strike program. By visually highlighting both the timeline and volume of these official public acknowledgments, and starkly contrasting them with the government鈥檚 obstinate position in litigation, ProPublica has supplied a fresh and instructive representation of what the 老澳门开奖结果 will argue in Washington next week鈥攖hat the government simply cannot continue to publicly disclose information about the drone program while attempting to keep that information locked outside the federal courts.

The government鈥檚 pile of public disclosures got even larger last week, when, in a with CNN, President Obama again acknowledged the existence of the drone program and described five principles that he says guides the government鈥檚 drone-targeting decisions. Further, at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, the President鈥檚 re-election campaign distributed a 鈥攁 message 鈥渁pproved by Barack Obama鈥濃�攕eeking political advantage from highlighting particular CIA drone killings, including that of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki. (The targeted killings of al-Awlaki, and two other U.S. citizens, are the subjects of two other lawsuits brought by the 老澳门开奖结果.)

And yet the government鈥檚 position has not changed one bit in court. Stay tuned as we take our argument against the government鈥檚 double game to the D.C. Circuit .

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