ACTION ALERT!!! LAWSUIT FOR TORTURED TARGETED INDIVIDULALS was filed Feb 01, 2012.

To all victim's:

This lawsuit has gone through!!.....you may wanat to see if it is still going and we can get in on it! ACT!!...NOW IS THE TIME TO LET THE ACLU HEADQUARTERS AND THE COURT WHERE THIS IS FILED TO INCLUDE us if it is still in progess (filed a year ago) I BELIEVE A: MOTION TO INTERVIEN CAN BE FILED. YOU MAY TRY TO CONTACT THE ACLU REGARDING THIS LAWSUIT...WE ARE SURE INTITLED TO BE ADDED!!

HOPEFULLY OUR PRAYERS will be HEARD BY GOD, I HOPE THE PERPERTRAITORS, AND THERE IS MANY, MANY LEVELS OR GOVERNMENT, CONTRACTORS, LOCAL POLICE (IN MY CASE THE EVIL CHANDLER, ARIZONA AND MESA ARIZONA POLICE) SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN, SENATOR JON KYLE, MAYOR JAY TIBSHRAENY AND ALL THE COURTS UP TO AND INCLUDING THE US SUPREME COURT JUSTICES WHO DENIED MY CASE 3 TIMES! WITH A MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION WAS DENIED..WHEN THIS IS THE MOST HYNIS ACT ON HUMANIT, WAR CRIMES AND GENOSIS AGAINST HUMANS WHICH SHOULD HAVE NEVER, NEVER, NEVER HAVE HAPPENED!!

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The ACLU filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Obama administration agencies, including the Justice and Defense Departments and the CIA, over their refusing to disclose any information about President Obama's targeted killing of Americans program. The ACLU had filed a FOIA request in October to obtain the most basic information about the CIA’s drone killings of three American targeted individuals in Yemen: Anwar Awlaki and Samir Khan in September, and Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, killed by another drone attack two weeks later.

"It seems unbelievable: through a joint operation between the CIA and the military, three U.S. citizens are killed by unmanned predator drones, far from any battlefield. None of them were charged with a crime, and no court reviewed the government's decision to kill its own citizens," ACLU Director Anthony Romero stated late Thursday evening in an email.

"Our government’s deliberate and premeditated killing of American terrorism suspects raises profound questions that ought to be the subject of public debate. Unfortunately the Obama administration has released very little information about the practice — its official position is that the targeted killing program is a state secret — and some of the information it has released has been misleading," stated ACLU in its written statement yesterday, February 1, 2012.

The ACLU’s FOIA requested information on the legal and factual basis for these killings meaning: "tell us what legal theories you’ve adopted to secretly target U.S. citizens for execution, and what factual basis did you have to launch these specific strikes?" reports Glenn Greenwald in Salon.

The DOJ and CIA responded (see here and here) by refusing to provide any of information requested and even refused to to confirm if any of the requested documents exist.

ACLU stated Wednesday that “these agencies are saying the targeted killing program is so secret that they can’t even acknowledge that it exists.”

That refusal prompted yesterday’s ACLU lawsuit.

In December, the New York Times also sued the Obama administration after it failed to produce DOJ legal memoranda “justifying” the assassination program in response to a FOIA request from two reporters Charlie Savage and Scott Shane.

The ACLU lawsuit seeks disclosure of both legal and factual bases for these executions that David Swanson listed today among President Barack Obama's 27 impeachable offenses.

People on Obama's high-tech kill-list in the "war on terror" had hoped that the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) lawsuit challenging the Obama Administration's asserted authority for "targeted killings” of U.S. citizens far from armed conflict zones would shed light directly on them, innocent American Targeted Individuals (TIs) and TIs in other countries, each struggling to survive the covert operation.

There is widespread belief that the Yemen targeted killings are the tip of the iceberg of targeted abuses and that voiceless, faceless targets are dying or have been covertly killed according to TI support group communications.

"That the government adds people to kill lists after a bureaucratic process and leaves them on the lists for months at a time flies in the face of the Constitution and international law," Vince Warren, Executive Director of CCR had stated. ("Rights Groups File Challenge To Targeted Killing By U.S., Sept. 1, 2010")

Greenwald reported Thursday, "From a certain perspective, there’s really only one point worth making about all of this: if you think about it, it is warped beyond belief that the ACLU has to sue the U.S. Government in order to force it to disclose its claimed legal and factual bases for assassinating U.S. citizens without charges, trial or due process of any kind.

"It’s extraordinary enough that the Obama administration is secretly targeting citizens for execution-by-CIA; that they refuse even to account for what they are doing even to the point of refusing to disclose their legal reasoning as to why they think the President possesses this power is just mind-boggling."

Greenwald asks, "[W]hat more tyrannical power is there than for a government to target its own citizens for death in total secrecy and with no checks and then insist on the right to do so without even having to explain its legal and factual rationale for what it is doing?

"Could you even imagine what the U.S. Government and its media supporters would be saying about any other non-client-state country that asserted and exercised this power?

Greenwald says one abuse deserves special attention here: "namely, the way in which the Obama administration manipulates and exploits its secrecy powers.

"Here is what the DOJ said to the ACLU about why it will not merely withhold all records, but will refuse even to confirm or deny whether any such records exist:

Knocking the "Most Transparent Administration Ever™," Greenwald says the Obama administration refuses even to confirm or deny if there is an assassination program, or if it played any role in the execution of these three American targeted individuals, "because even that most elementary information is classified.

"What makes this assertion so inexcusable beyond its inherently and self-evidently anti-democratic nature is that the Obama administration constantly boasts in public about this very same program when doing so is politically beneficial for the President," says Greenwald.

"The day Awlaki was killed, the President himself began a White House ceremony by announcing Awlaki’s death, trumpeting it as 'a major blow to al Qaeda’s most active operational affiliate,' boasting that 'the death of al-Awlaki marks another significant milestone in the broader effort to defeat al Qaeda and its affiliate,' and then patting himself on the back one last time: 'this success is a tribute to our intelligence community.'

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta described on 60 Minutes this week the targeted individual process -- U.S. citizen targeted for assassination: “the President of the United States has to sign off and he should.”

Greenwald writes:

"Obama officials have repeatedly gone to the media anonymously to make claims about Awlaki’s guilt and to justify their assassination program. Here is one 'senior administration lawyer' cowardly hiding behind anonymity responding to my criticisms and justifying the assassination program to Benjamin Wittes (who naturally protected him from being identified).

"When I spoke at an NYU Law School event in 2010 and criticized what was then the Awlaki assassination attempt while sitting next to FBI Counter-Terrorism official Niall Brennan, NPR’s national security reporter, Dina Temple-Raston, stood up and revealed that Obama officials had secretly shown her snippets of evidence to demonstrate that Awlaki was involved in actual Terrorist plots.

"So Obama can go on TV shows and trigger applause for himself by boasting of the Awlaki killing. He can publicly accuse Awlaki of all sorts of crimes for which there has been no evidence presented. He can dispatch his aides to anonymously brag in newspapers about all the secret evidence showing Awlaki’s guilt and showing how resolute and tough the President is for ordering him executed. Justice Department and Pentagon officials scamper around in the dark flashing snippets of evidence about Awlaki to reporters like Temple-Raston so that they dutifully march forward to defend the government’s assassination program. Obama officials will anonymous insist in public that they have legal authority to target citizens for killing without trial."

The Obama administration cannot even confirm or deny that the assassination of targeted individuals program exists so it cannot be scrutinized by courts at all, asserts Greenwald.

"There’s only one place in the world where these programs cannot be discussed: in American courts.

"That’s because, when it comes time to have real disclosure and adversarial checks rather than one-sided, selective, unverifiable disclosure and when it comes time to determine if government officials are breaking the law, the administration ludicrously claims that it is too dangerous even to confirm if such a program exists (and disgracefully deferential federal courts in the post-9/11 era typically acquiesce to those claims)

"So here we have the nauseating spectacle of the Obama administration secretly targeting its own citizens for assassination, boasting in public about it in order to show how Tough and Strong the President is, but then hiding behind broad secrecy claims to shield their conduct from meaningful transparency, public debate, and legal review, all while pretending that they are motivated by lofty National Security Concerns when wielding these secrecy weapons.

"The only thing worse than the U.S. Government’s conduct of most affairs behind a wall of secrecy is how cynical, manipulative and self-protective is its invocation of these secrecy powers."

A landmark CCR, ACLU lawsuit was filed in September 2010 challenging government's asserted authority for "targeted killings” of U.S. citizens far from armed conflict zones. Until then, innocent civilians on the watch-list -- or "hit-list" -- had been publicly unrecognized by major organizations, health workers and media, despite evidence that targets have been covertly persecuted, tortured, and used for non-consensual experimentation.

"Hundreds of consistent reports by credible targets globally indicate that the secret operation has been and is fully operational." ("APA's CIA torture complicity. Is American ready for the whole truth?" Examiner, August 14, 2010)

"The Obama administration has released very little information about its targeted killing program," Romero said in his email Thursday. "Its official position is that the program is a state secret — and some of the information it has released has been misleading.

"However, some officials, including President Obama, have spoken about the program.

"They have publicly claimed responsibility for killing al-Awlaki, and they have more generally defended the government's right to kill citizens after a secret non-judicial process," Romero wrote.

"Tell President Obama: We need transparency about the government's targeted killing program."

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Greenwald concludes, "Whenever these issues are discussed, people often ask what can be done about them. There are no easy answers to that question, but supporting the ACLU is definitely one important act...

"There are several excellent civil liberties groups in the U.S. worthy of support (CCR is one example), but the ACLU is constantly at the forefront in imposing at least some substantial barriers to the government’s always-escalating abuse of its powers, and, unlike most advocacy groups in the U.S., it defends its values and imposes checks without the slightest regard for which party controls the government.

ACLU's director Anthony Romero stated Thursday, "We must demand government transparency. Stand with us.

"Urge the Obama administration to release greater information about this program."

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