When is the government authorized to use drones to kill U.S. Citizens overseas?
The Justice Department, which has resisted the release of the information, said Tuesday it won’t block the release of a secret drone memo, the USA Today reports.
That decision was made easier because the memo’s author, former Justice Department official David Barron, has been nominated to serve on a federal appeals court bench in Boston.
“The … opinions written or signed by Mr. Barron helped form the purported legal foundation for a large-scale killing program that has resulted in, as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stated last year, as many as 4,700 deaths by drone attacks, including the deaths of four American citizens,” the ACLU said in a Tuesday letter to senators urging them to review the documents.
