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a new story about throw strikes in the new york times first of all let me give
you some of the numbers
we've done uh... over three hundred confirmed drone strikes since president
obama has been in office
uh... and
twenty five hundred people have been killed
at least three hundred of those have been civilians
as a very conservative
we find out through of the new york times
that uh...
obama administration turns out
well they did not really clear guidelines for who they were telling
so they panicked a little bit before the elections
let me show you what the new york times wrote they say
uh... facing the possibility the president on bomb a
might not win a second term his administration accelerated work in the
weeks before the election
to develop explicit rules
for the targeting killing of terrorists
by unmanned drones
so that our new president would inherit clear standards and procedures
according to two administration efficient
in other words there were no
clearer roles and standards and procedures
for how we killed these people
boots
how about that a little more above the law
so obviously we don't need crusaders
but wait a minute if somebody else come in office
but maybe we should do some clear standards for who we did
and and i keep saying killed in a way to get the wrong idea draws rates and i've
been a target
pit when you do a strike as a bomb it kills everybody
that it hit including civilians including men women and children often
times right
all times men women and children
uh... they decide hey you know what
uh... maybe we should get some clarity but then
of course they won election so the new york times explains
the matter may have lost some urgency
after november six
well that's what
now that we're back in charge because i've noticed stated standards in person
and i don't need that
it so yeah scribe
but not a
alright it continues
uh... the administration is still pushing to make the rules formal
and result internal certainty in disagreement about exactly
when lethal action is justified
all right now
that's interesting and
deeply disturbing
uh... we've got some disagreements so when we should kill people but
that we have really made any sanders
so we're kind of an ad hoc basis to recollect that now i guess so i'll was
the rules that
when i have any lesser republicans and democrats organs and then
biologist the article for right
kids go
new york times explains mister obama did not want to leave in a more pissed
program to successor
you know that means
companies right now we have a no more pres program
that's exactly what we have
so as i told him alone
me in the way we're doing is
hardly
unclear
finally that's right
the next day waja
paul why do you have an incredibly amorphous program
he continues
the effort which would have been rushed to completion by january
pat mister romney one
will now be finished and a more leisurely pace the official said
opted well
as we continue to bomb these folks and kill them over and over again
we won't do so editor leisurely pace
not the killings
but figuring out what the rationale standards are as we're doing
now is this deeply a moral is also
totally counterproductive
but we continue
your times points out quote mister obama himself in little notice remarks
zig knowledge of the legal government santro strikes
is still
all work
in progress
that's always your queue for we don't know what the hell we're doing
and there's a fly by night operation
and restricted
now uh... and byron is the same thing about initiation said when they
reauthorize
uh... drilling in the gulf coast
they can sell xo interior secretary
when he was asking congress
hey did you figure out what went wrong and have you fix that
in terms of safety to make sure doesn't happen again
it's a work in progress
in other words
nope
we didn't do that at all
so they're right here's a president mama told jon stewart
on october eighteenth on the daily show he said quote one of the things we've
got to do is put the legal architecture in place
and we need
congressional help in oregon that to make sure that not only in my reined in
but any president's trained in in terms of some of the decisions
wasn't that big
mother were issues admitted i'm not rated at all i do whatever the hell i
want to kill anybody i want in fact
they've executed u_s_ citizens
with no due process no trial
mean free trial they don't even go to the judiciary in
get any kind of indictment or not or anything else three or citizens execute
uh... they say one was on purpose but his sixteen-year-old son of the raha
halt the lucky was not on purpose
he was just killed accidentally we thank you
although they never clarified the saddest top secret
and so while we killed a sixteen-year-old with no due process
whatsoever but probably it was a mistake
well is not really sure
but the president in this right there that is not reigned in and that their is
no legal architecture in place for it
that's devastating if they are the rest of you cared at all
outside of austin traveled in new york times
that would be a huge story of a republican did it all my got every
democrat liberal progress in the country
would be screaming bloody ***
again who pretty much literal right when a democratic president doesn't know
needs legal architecture in
standards and procedures palm away
it's interesting because uh...
in their early years in here let me put it at times again
but by many accounts has been seen every shift in the nature of the targets now
but this is when they were explaining
cake in the early years we had
uh...
been targeted specifically
al-qaeda leaders so if we think is the ranking outfit officer were to go and
film that's how it started maxis or in the bushes back in two thousand two
you know that
before two thousand one
we condemn targeted killings like this when other countries we did it we were
like huh i cannot believe
you would break international law by determining kya likha now
we knew hundreds of them
uh... the problem is that it more so they saved
bubye many cancers missing every shift in the nature of the parts
in the early years most race or aimed at ranking leaders about of al-qaeda
thought to be plotting
to attack the united states so that's how it reads
and then what happens next
explain but for several years person pakistan a leader in yemen
in addition a personality strikes
against name terrorists
the c_i_a_ in the military
have carried out signature strikes
began scripts of
suspected
unknown militants
in other words as i've been telling you all on
we don't know who were killing
unknown militants
the signature strike started out
being signatures of a certain al-qaeda leader
that even that was bs read like we think that that's his car in his car is in
that neighborhood was trouble bomb they receive ouija right
then they morph into
well
we don't know the setup kehta leader there we don't even know bazaar melted
but there's a lot of guns they're soulless trust drop a bomb and see what
happens that's a signature strike that's why we didn't wedding sometimes
because they bring guns the weapons
that we have the right thing interests
yeah that's what happens when you want people and you have no idea what your
money
and spelling
and killing
and here it is clearly admitting they don't know what
by the way in new york times is kinda missus unknown militants
but we showed you in an earlier piece in the new york times that they say anyone
who is male in the area
is de facto caserta militant with no evidence
in other words
they'd all be civilians
but as long as we bomb them
then by definition we call them militants it is absurd is sickening
to be fair though bombing missions shifted to some complex
basic or such strikes have prompted
the greatest conflict inside though bombing administration
with some officials questioning whether telling on a new unidentified fighters
is legally justified
or work the local backpack
while
you need to tell me there's some people inside the administration was safe
maybe we shouldn't randomly kill people
and that might cause a bad
well how do you do it right now there are some oliver jerry's
is i don't buy a managers have been one of course
but i love the report that is like are we dont merciful there's a couple of
guys we don't listen to whoever was so i'll say hey maybe we shouldn't kill
renova
i think that that got a lot because i've popping now no legal architecture no
standards no procedures
we continue unabated
gregory eddy johnson is author of the last refugee yemen allocated america's
workin arabia
is probably the top expert on yemen in the country's up receiver city
he says quote
in yemen al-qaeda
is actually expanding
mister johnson said the recent awkward brookings institution in part because
of the backlash
against the strikes
so not only are they deeply in moral
outside of the law and there's another word for that it's called you legal
but they're also counterproductive
look i'm not against all drawn strikes
sometimes
target intro strikes when we are absolutely sure can prevent a larger
scale conflict
but when it more spin too
uh... program that has no balance
no legal structure and we're just supposed to trust the executive branch
that killing the right people even though we know it killed hundreds of
civilians
that we know of little how much more twenty
because everybody else is called milton when we have no idea if they're
militants
we know that killed women and children would be strikes el nino ed executing
u_s_ citizens
with the strikes
with no due process
and what are we supposed to do distrust them
because it's a kindly democrat in office
plan so that is
hell no
this program is gross
is wrong izzy moral it does not help national security
all it does is stoked the fires
so that we had endless wars
this program is not for peace is for further war
any of you
cared at all about this and it doesn't matter of your progressive
or conservative
issue say hey
not on our watchman
you don't kill u_s_ citizens
let alone
this verse in a move america by killing civilians
with signature strike so we don't even know we're telling
he do it with no legal justification we we share with the american people
and according to the
admission of the president himself
no legal structure whatsoever
it is wrong wrong