updated Fri. August 2, 2024
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Media Matters for America
February 20, 2018
Fox Nation hyped a Daily Mail article suggesting Obama's father was a “slippery character” because of his interracial marriage. ... Fox Nation wrote the headline “Taliban Copies Democrat Playbook” about an article that described insurgency tactics such as roadside bombing and featured a kill list.
The National
February 17, 2018
(Laws originally passed by Obama, after the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre in 2013). ... Since then, the paradox of Obama – publicly anguishing before his own brace of suburban massacres, while privately signing off his drone “kill-list” every Tuesday morning – has collapsed into the gangsterÃâà...
Truthdig
February 10, 2018
... Greenwald to the devil and joked about wanting to put whistleblower Edward Snowden on a kill list. Others include John Kirby, a retired admiral and a former spokesman for the State Department, and Lisa Monaco, who was Homeland Security adviser under President Obama. CNN also hired Phil Mudd,Ãâà...
The Scotsman
February 7, 2018
In the book Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill it's suggested that drone strikes increased under Barack Obama's Presidency. A list signed off every Tuesday by the President and, as here, without any conviction in a court of law or appearance before a judge, nevermind a right of appeal. Not even any scrutiny orÃâà...
Toledo Blade
February 2, 2018
The Obama administration created an extrajudicial kill list, known as the “deposition matrix,” which gave Mr. Obama and his advisers the power to shoot missiles wherever and at whomever they please. Mr. Obama, a former constitutional law professor, had campaigned on a platform in which peace andÃâà...
Politico (blog)
March 30, 2017
... District Court in Washington, contending that they were erroneously placed on the "kill list" during the Obama administration and that Trump has illegally maintained that designation. The suit also alleges that Trump has loosened some of the safeguards the previous administration placed on the program.
Los Angeles Times
June 29, 2016
Since taking office, President Obama has sent U.S. troops into action on land or in the skies of seven countries on two continents. Obama's administration has authorized Navy SEALs to kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and approved the fatal drone strike on an American cleric in Yemen. Here is a look at targeted killingsÃâà...
The Guardian
March 16, 2015
Last night, NBC News' Michael Isikoff released a 16-page "white paper" prepared by the Obama DOJ that purports to justify Obama's power to target even Americans for assassination without due process (the memo is embedded in full below). This is not the primary OLC memo justifying Obama's kill listÃâà...
The Guardian
March 16, 2015
On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) will file a disclosure lawsuit for secret Obama administration documents specifying, among other things, the criteria for placement on the so-called “kill list” for drone strikes and other deadly force. Information sought by the ACLU includes long-secretÃâà...
