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Just Foreign Policy has a petition going that urges Senators and others to ask real questions about accountability and transparency when it comes to drone policy during the upcoming Administration nominee confirmations. You can check it out, and perhaps sign it HERE .

New year much like the old year

Although holidays have made me a bit tardy about putting up a new post here, it's not because drone policy itself has taken a holiday. Danger Room once again focuses on the Administrations unchanged stance here.

I love many things about the Obama administration, but the drone policy is not one of them. Two things that stand out in the cited article for me are that neither the New York Times nor the ACLU have been able to get the administration to disclose the secret memoranda that is its rationale for the drone strategy. How can a democracy have a secret memorandum as the basis of its military policy? Not a question we are likely to have answered soon.

The other item of note was that though the U.S. District court judge did find drone strikes legitimate against Anwar al-Awlaki,  she commented,"the Founders contemplated that traitors would be dealt with by the courts of law, not by unilateral action of the Executive."

Well said, Judge Colleen McMahon.