Please let me know the link if you find it.
“Please let me know the link if you find it.”
I can find comments about the new rule book, but can’t find the actual rule book. I don’t remember where I heard, read he had signed these new rules but I did read or hear that yesterday or the day before. It could be we peons are not allowed to see or read the actual wording in the “new codified rule book”.
Here are comments about it:
“But a newly-codified rule book, administration officials said, would hold U.S. authorities to a tougher standard when deciding whom to kill, where, and under what circumstances.
Under the new policy, strikes will only be authorized against militants who pose “a continuing, imminent threat,” aides said, instead of “a significant threat,” which had been the previous standard.
Before any strike is undertaken, “there must be a near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured,” said a senior administration official who spoke under ground rules that did not allow him to be named.
Strikes against foreign militants will be conducted under the same standard as those against U.S. citizens who have joined forces with al Qaeda, the official said.”
The result, aides said, will be a curtailing of the frequent, secret drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen that have marked much of Obama’s presidency. At the same time, Obama reserved the right to order covert lethal action anywhere the administration finds a threat from Al Qaeda.Obama didn’t spell out exactly why he was throttling back on drones, a program he inherited from President George W. Bush and then dramatically expanded.
They've been gearing up to this for a while. Found an older NY Times story I didn't open Election Spurred a Move to Codify U.S. Drone Policy - The New York ... with accompanying excerpt;
Nov 24, 2012 – But with more than 300 drone strikes and some 2,500 people killed by the ... first took office, the administration is still pushing to make the rules formal and ... The attempt to write a formal rule book for targeted killing began last summer ... won, will now be finished at a more leisurely pace, the official said.