http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/24/obama-drone-vetting-kill-courts?guni=Network front:network-front main-3 Main trailblock:Network front - main trailblock:Position5
doesn't sit well when the the decision would be theirs, do nothing congress in freeze mode
Proposals to vet future US drone strikes risk creating "kill courts" according to human rightscampaigners who say Barack Obama's promise of new legal oversight does not go far enough to end what they regard as extrajudicial executions.
The president has asked Congress to consider establishing a special court or oversight board to authorise lethal action outside warzones under a new counter-terrorism doctrine which he says will end the "boundless war on terror".But responses to his speech from leading campaign groups, though broadly welcoming, highlight how little change Obama is proposing to the underlying principle that the US has a legal right to kill suspected terrorists abroad without trial.In his speech on Thursday, Obama suggested that in the future drone attacks would be limited, and that they would be carried out primarily by the US military rather than the CIA.
is Pres. about to outBama the congress again?
no matter what he does the right wing will complain and spin it as not the right thing to do, so now they are being asked to handle it their way any future drone incidents falling on their heads, think they are noy cozying up to that idea so let's see what they come up with in between the lines of crying foul, by putting the ball in their court. i luv it!!!
"The establishment of a special court to evaluate and authorise lethal action has the benefit of bringing a third branch of government into the process, but raises serious constitutional issues about presidential and judicial authority," he said.Zeke Johnson, director of Amnesty International USA's Security with Human Rights Campaign, said: "What's needed on drones is not a 'kill court' but rejection of the radical redefinition of 'imminence' used to expand who can be killed as well as independent investigations of alleged extrajudicial executions and remedy for victims."The president was right to call for repeal of the 2001 authorisation for use of military force, but he doesn't need to wait for Congress to act on this. He can unequivocally reject the 'global war' legal theory today, once and for all, and put an end to the indefinite detention, military commissions and unlawful killings it has been used to justify."
and then the right wing will complain about too many pages to the bill, and it's not leading. and what ever else they can imagine would sound good.
