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Obama will not restrict drone strike 'playbook' before Trump takes office
Source: The Guardian
Obama will not restrict drone strike 'playbook' before Trump takes office
Trump administration will inherit Obama’s signature
counter-terrorism tactic, known as ‘targeted killing’,
the controversial rules of which new book reveals
Spencer Ackerman in New York and Patrick Wintour in London
Tuesday 15 November 2016 12.30 GMT
Barack Obama will not tighten the rules governing US drone strikes ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Guardian has learned.
Trump will inherit the apparatus for what Obama calls “targeted killing” – the so-called drones “playbook” formally known as the 22 May 2013 Presidential Policy Guidance or PPG – that has turned drone strikes into Obama’s signature counter-terrorism tactic.
While the White House considers its standards for drone strikes to be scrupulous, much of the rest of the world considers them to represent an arbitrary, secret and dangerous apparatus of secret killing that Trump will soon have at his disposal.
“Maybe on the left no one would believe that Trump has a steady hand, but Obama has normalized the idea that presidents get to have secret large-scale killing programs at their disposal,” said Naureen Shah of Amnesty International USA.
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Trump administration will inherit Obama’s signature
counter-terrorism tactic, known as ‘targeted killing’,
the controversial rules of which new book reveals
Spencer Ackerman in New York and Patrick Wintour in London
Tuesday 15 November 2016 12.30 GMT
Barack Obama will not tighten the rules governing US drone strikes ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Guardian has learned.
Trump will inherit the apparatus for what Obama calls “targeted killing” – the so-called drones “playbook” formally known as the 22 May 2013 Presidential Policy Guidance or PPG – that has turned drone strikes into Obama’s signature counter-terrorism tactic.
While the White House considers its standards for drone strikes to be scrupulous, much of the rest of the world considers them to represent an arbitrary, secret and dangerous apparatus of secret killing that Trump will soon have at his disposal.
“Maybe on the left no one would believe that Trump has a steady hand, but Obama has normalized the idea that presidents get to have secret large-scale killing programs at their disposal,” said Naureen Shah of Amnesty International USA.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/15/obama-administration-drone-strikes-donald-trump