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WASHINGTON 鈥� The Biden administration has released the rules governing lethal strikes outside of recognized warzones abroad in response to lawsuits filed by the American Civil Liberties and The New York Times after the news outlet reported their existence in 2022.

Presidents Obama and Trump also issued initially secret lethal force policies, which became public in redacted form after the 老澳门开奖结果 and the New York Times sued and forced their release in 2016 and 2021.

Brett Max Kaufman, senior staff attorney with the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Center for Democracy, issued the following response:

鈥淲hile we welcome the Biden administration鈥檚 release of its lethal force rules, it should not require lawsuits to bring these controversial killing policies to light. And while these rules appear to restore the minimal safeguards against civilian harm that the Trump administration previously gutted, they still do not go far enough.

鈥淥nly Congress has the power to authorize use of force abroad, yet these rules further entrench unilateral assertions of presidential power. Biden鈥檚 promise to protect civilians rings hollow as these rules continue to rely upon vague and permissive terms like 鈥榠mminence鈥� and 鈥榥ear certainty鈥� to excuse harm time and time again. And most concerningly, the policy鈥檚 weak civilian harm rules do not even apply to strikes conducted in 鈥榗ollective self-defense鈥� of U.S. partner forces, a novel legal theory the Biden administration has repeatedly invoked to exempt deadly strikes in Somalia from its rules.

鈥淯ntil these loopholes are closed, we will continue to see America鈥檚 lethal strikes program exact an appalling toll on Muslim, Brown, and Black civilians around the world, perpetuating the very wars President Biden pledged to end.鈥�