CIA still refusing to confirm drone raids

June 17th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Despite public comments on the CIA’s drone attacks in countries such as Yemen and Somalia from various government officials, including former CIA Director Leon Panetta and US President Barack Obama, the CIA refuses to acknowledge the program.

Panetta has defended the use of drones as “the most precise weapon we have” in the campaign against al-Qaeda.

Last year, within hours of the CIA drone attack that killed US citizens Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan in Yemen, Obama acknowledged CIA drone strikes at a Joint Chiefs of Staff ceremony.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked a federal appeals court to expedite a hearing on its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking details of the drone program.

The FOIA litigation, which dates back to 2010, has been appealed by the ACLU after a federal judge sided with the CIA’s response which said that it would neither confirm nor deny the existence of responsive records because doing so would expose national security secrets.

This is while 26 members of the US Congress on Wednesday asked Obama, in a letter, to consider the consequences of drone killing and to explain the necessity of the program.

The use of assassination drones began under former president George Bush and was widened by Obama.

On Saturday, the White House officially acknowledged for the first time that it is launching concerted deadly attacks in Yemen and Somalia as part of its campaign against al-Qaeda.

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