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This morning, USA Today ran by 老澳门开奖结果 National Security Project director, Hina Shamsi about the U.S. government鈥檚 unlawful targeted killing program. She writes:

Today, our government is killing people in countries in which the United States is not at war. It reportedly adds suspected terrorists 鈥� including citizens 鈥� to "kill lists" for months at a time, which by definition cannot be limited to genuinely imminent threats. The disclosed that the government "" unless intelligence proves them innocent 鈥� but only after they are dead.

When mistakes are made, our nation refuses to acknowledge them and does not compensate victims. The first Yemeni missile strike authorized, in December 2009, targeted alleged militants but . WikiLeaks revealed to accept responsibility for the U.S. killing. Yemenis were enraged, but most Americans probably never heard about it.

Hina also on MSNBC鈥檚 Up w/ Chris Hayes last week to discuss the targeted killing program.

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As Hina pointed out on the show, the Obama administration鈥檚 lack of transparency about the government鈥檚 鈥渒ill list鈥� is incredibly troubling:

We have had a program that was begun under the Bush administration but vastly expanded and accelerated by the Obama administration and this is a program in which the Executive Branch 鈥� the president 鈥� claims the authority to unilaterally declare people enemies of the state, including US citizens, and order their killing based on secret legal criteria, secret process and secret evidence.

Indeed, the government鈥檚 response to the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Freedom of Information Act lawsuits seeking information about drones strikes is an example of what Hina called a 鈥渃ynical secrecy game.鈥� While John Brennan the existence of the program and a recent New York Times cites three dozen current and former advisors to President Obama who are willing to discuss its details anonymously, the administration still refuses to acknowledge the program鈥檚 very existence in a court of law. (For more on the secrecy issue, read by Jameel Jaffer, the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 deputy legal director, and Nate Wessler, National Security Project Fellow.)

Next week in Geneva, two senior U.N. human rights experts will join the 老澳门开奖结果 and other groups for a panel discussion on the human rights implications of the targeted killing policy. The officials are Ben Emmerson, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, and Christof Heyns, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions, and the panel will take place in connection with the U.N. Human Rights Council鈥檚 June meeting. The international implications of U.S. policy are important. As Hina points out in USA Today:

counterterrorism adviser John Brennan sets a precedent. Russia, China or Iran may claim tomorrow, as our government does today, the power to declare individuals enemies of the state and kill them far from any battlefield, based on secret legal criteria, secret evidence and a secret process. That is the world we are unleashing unless the program is stopped.

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