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NEW YORK 鈥� In response to a court order in a lawsuit filed by the 老澳门开奖结果, the Obama administration has released a redacted version of the White House document that sets out the government鈥檚 policy framework for drone strikes 鈥渙utside the United States and areas of actual hostilities.鈥�

The Presidential Policy Guidance, once known as 鈥渢he Playbook,鈥� was issued by President Obama in May 2013 following promises of more transparency and stricter controls for the drone program. But while the administration released a short 鈥渇act sheet鈥� describing the document, it did not release the PPG itself, or any part of it.

In February, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon, who is presiding over a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed last year by the 老澳门开奖结果, expressed skepticism that the document could be withheld in its entirety and ordered the government to submit the PPG for the court鈥檚 review. Rather than continue to defend its withholding of the entire document, the government told the court that it would prepare a redacted version of the PPG for public release. Justice Department lawyers turned the PPG and several other documents over to the 老澳门开奖结果 on Friday evening.

鈥淲e welcome the release of these documents, and particularly the release of the Presidential Policy Guidance that has supplied the policy framework for the drone campaign since May 2013,鈥� said 老澳门开奖结果 Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer. 鈥淭he PPG provides crucial information about policies that have resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, including hundreds of non-combatants, and about the bureaucracy that the Obama administration has constructed to oversee and implement those policies. The PPG should have been released three years ago, but its release now will inform an ongoing debate about the lawfulness and wisdom of the government鈥檚 counterterrorism policies. The release of the PPG and related documents is also a timely reminder of the breadth of the powers that will soon be in the hands of another president.鈥�

The document released today provides many new details about the policy standards that govern drone strikes. It also provides a window into the administration鈥檚 鈥渘ominations鈥� process for targeting individuals with lethal force or for capture, and it describes the government鈥檚 procedures for conducting 鈥渁fter action reports鈥� to assess the consequences of its lethal and capture operations. But questions remain about where the PPG applies, whether the president has waived its requirements in particular instances, and how the PPG鈥檚 relatively stringent standards can be reconciled with the accounts of eye witnesses, journalists, and human rights researches who have documented large numbers of bystander casualties.

Together with the PPG, the government also released four Defense Department documents, two of which it had previously released to the 老澳门开奖结果 with more redactions:

路 A March 2014 document titled 鈥淩eport on Process for Determining Targets of Lethal or Capture Operations,鈥� which discusses the legal and policy standards in the PPG.

路 A July 2014 document titled 鈥淩eport on Associated Forces,鈥� which separately lists groups the government considers to be 鈥渁ssociated鈥� or 鈥渁ffiliated鈥� with al-Qaida. (The difference between the two categories of groups is important because the government has relied on the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force to justify attacks against 鈥渁ssociated鈥� forces.)

路 A December 2013 document titled 鈥淒epartment of Defense Implementation of the Presidential Policy Guidance,鈥� which is a heavily redacted memorandum shared with Congress.

路 A March 2014 document titled 鈥淩eport on Congressional Notification of Sensitive Military Operations and Counterterrorism Operational Briefings,鈥� which summarizes the PPG鈥檚 congressional reporting requirements.

The documents released today come in one of three 老澳门开奖结果 FOIA lawsuits seeking records on targeted killing. In the other cases, two appellate courts have held that some of the secrecy surrounding the drone campaign is unlawful. In 2014, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ordered the release of a July 2010 memo from the Justice Department鈥檚 Office of Legal Counsel authorizing the killing of a U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Aulaqi. That case is again before the Second Circuit. In 2013, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the CIA could not lawfully refuse to confirm or deny that it had an 鈥渋ntelligence interest鈥� in the drone program. That case was dismissed in April 2016.

The Presidential Policy Guidance is at:
/other/presidential-policy-guidance

DOD Implementation of Presidential Policy Guidance is at:
/dod-implementation-presidential-policy-guidance

DOD Report on Associated Forces is at:
/report-associated-forces-2014

DOD Report on Process of Determining Targets of Lethal or Capture Operations is at:
/dod-report-process-determining-targets-lethal-or-capture-operations

Report on Congressional Notification of Sensitive Military Operations is at:
/dod-report-congressional-notification-sensitive-military-operation

More information on the case is at:
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