He said that doesn’t mean the CIA can’t “have a role in assisting in the use of fore in location targets.” “There are a lot of problems with the drone program and the targeted killing program, but the CIA should be out of the business of ordering lethal strikes,” said Christopher Anders, deputy director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union. But according to The Wall Street Journal, the CIA may be able to conduct drone strikes in other areas as well. officials said that the new authority under Trump is only for the CIA’s operations in Syria. Spokesmen for the Pentagon and CIA declined to comment to The Wall Street Journal. The CIA’s new authority, which was reportedly provided by Trump shortly after his inauguration, was used in February in a strike against a senior al Qaeda leader in Syria, Abu al-Khayr al-Masri. That policy created more transparency, because the Pentagon is required to publicly report most airstrikes. But the military then launched the strikes. Under the Obama administration, the CIA used drones to find suspected terrorists. The new authority is a change in drone policy from the Obama administration, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing U.S. The rationale behind organisations’ claim that these killings outside of defined conflict zones are “illegal” is based on the fact that the US Congress doesn’t authorise extrajudicial killings at times of peace.The CIA has reportedly been given the power by President Trump to launch drone strikes against suspected terrorists. The Trump administration has refused to disclose the killing rules in the past. In early May, the Biden administration published a redacted version of secret rules for use of lethal force against terrorism suspects abroad upon ACLU and the New York Times’ transparency lawsuits. Libya, Pakistan, Burkina Faso, Yemen, Tunisia, Somalia, and Yemen are among the countries that Obama-era rules are still being applied. Twenty years into a war-based approach that has undermined and violated fundamental rights, we urge you to abandon it and embrace an approach that advances our collective human security.” “Disavowing and ending the lethal strikes program is both a human rights and racial justice imperative in meeting these commitments. The organisations also point out that the program has caused damage within the US as well by contributing to further militarized and violent approaches to domestic policing bias-based racial, ethnic, and religious profiling in investigations, prosecutions, and watchlisting warrantless surveillance and epidemic rates of addiction and suicide among veterans, among other harms. Nabila Rehman, 9, is pictured in front of a photograph of her grandmother Mammana Bibi, who was killed by a US drone strike in Pakistan, and a drawing Nabila made depicting the incident, at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 29, 2013. “We appreciate your stated commitments to ending ‘forever wars,’ promoting racial justice, and centering human rights in US foreign policy,” the letter said. Even though Biden tightened the drone strikes rules that were relaxed by Trump, the previous president ended up carrying out significantly fewer strikes compared to the Obama administration. As vice president of Obama, Biden has participated in the administration that ordered targeted killings around the world. The counterterrorism drone warfare began as a response to the attacks on September 11, 2001, under former US President Barack Obama. Under the rule of the previous president Donald Trump, the military and the CIA were allowed to decide for themselves whether their attacks were justified, but Biden's administration now asks them to seek White House’s permission, and implement tighter controls.īut the organisations, 77 from the US and 36 based in other countries say, it’s not enough and the approaching 20th anniversary of 9/11 is an “opportunity to abandon this war-based approach and chart a new path forward” that promotes and respects our collective human security.
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The Biden administration is currently reviewing the US’ counterterrorism program, and reports say he already secretly limited counterterrorism drone strikes away from war zones. “This program is a centerpiece of the United States’ forever wars and has exacted an appalling toll on Muslim, Brown, and Black communities in multiple parts of the world,” the letter organised by the Human Rights and Security Coalition said. More than 100 human rights and anti-war organisations have urged US President Joe Biden to demand an end to the “unlawful program of lethal strikes outside any recognized battlefield, including through the use of drones,” in a joint letter. The US’s lethal airstrikes in non-battle fields have exacted an appalling toll on Muslim, Brown and Black communities in multiple parts of the world, the group says.