The Obama administration’s argument that federal judges should not “second-guess” the government policy of using unmanned aerial drones overseas to kill suspected terrorists, even if they are U.S. citizens, drew a strong and sustained negative response Friday morning from a federal judge in Washington. “The question is: how far does your argument take you? Where is the limit to this? Where does that stop?” U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer asked a government lawyer during a one-hour, twenty-minute hearing. The hearing was focused on a Justice Department plea to dismiss, without a full trial, a claim to hold former government officials to blame legally for the killings by two drone strikes in Yemen of a U.S. citizen and his sixteen-year-old son. The father, Anwar Al-Aulaqi, was specifically targeted, government officials have said, but the son, Abdulrahman, was not.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 13:26:36 +0000
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