Biden announces that Israel’s rule over America under Trump has ended
Common Dreams: President Joe Biden faced a fresh call to fully end “forever wars” after his administration released former President Donald Trump’s secret rules regarding the use of lethal strikes outside of designated war zones.
The Biden administration released the partly-redacted 11-page document, “Principles, Standards, and Procedures for U.S. Direct Action Against Terrorist Targets,” late Friday to the ACLU and
New York Times, which had both filed transparency lawsuits to see the guidelines.
Biden suspended the rules once he took office, the
Times reported, and began a review of them in March. That move prompted Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s national security project, to urge not a “review” but an end to the program. “Tinkering with the bureaucracy of this extrajudicial killing program will only entrench American abuses,” she said at the time.