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  • Trump revokes Obama order on reporting civilian deaths in drone strikes

    03/07/2019 9:46:08 AM PST · by TangledUpInBlue · 14 replies
    Yahoo News ^ | 3/6/19 | Dylan Stableford
    Trump’s order effectively canceled a policy, signed by President Barack Obama in July 2016, requiring U.S. officials to release “an unclassified summary of the number of strikes undertaken by the United States government outside areas of active hostilities,” as well as a related civilian casualty report by May 1 each year. “This is a shameful decision that will shroud this administration’s actions in even more secrecy with little accountability for its victims," Daphne Eviatar, Amnesty International USA's director of security with human rights, said in a statement. “The public deserves to know how many civilians are killed by U.S. actions....
  • Trump Cancels U.S. Report on Civilian Deaths in Drone Strikes

    03/07/2019 2:13:47 AM PST · by gattaca · 15 replies
    Fortune ^ | March 6, 2019 | MARGARET TALEV
    President Donald Trump revoked a requirement that U.S. intelligence officials publicly report the number of civilians killed in drone strikes and other attacks on terrorist targets outside of war zones. Trump formally ended the requirement with an executive order on Wednesday, months after signaling such a move. The administration last year ignored a May deadline for an annual accounting of civilian and enemy casualties required under an order signed in 2016 by then-President Barack Obama. The order was part of an accountability effort to minimize civilian deaths from drone strikes. The order signed by Trump revokes the requirement that the...