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Julian Assange has called on the U.S. to disclose documents on drones
February 10, 2013 · 0 Comments
The founder of the controversial website Wikileaks Julian Assange in a video interview with the American channel HBO urged Washington to declassify the program on the use of drones to fight terrorists.
“I see no greater decline of the political system than when the executive power is killing its citizens freely on your own, secret, not telling about making his decision public,” – he said, calling on the U.S. government to make this information open to all.
On the eve of the chairman of the Committee on Intelligence Senate Dianne Feinstein expressed the idea of the possibility of declassification program to use drones to fight terrorists. Feinstein said that, maybe it is time to declassify the program to recognize the strikes on terrorists and at the same time to give an update on the number of victims among the civilian population, for which data are greatly exaggerated.
In addition, the head of the Senate Committee of Intelligence reported that she and a number of senators is considering the possibility of a legislative initiative to create a special supervisory body that would regulate the use of drone strikes, “Interfax”.
Feinstein made this statement after the hearing in the Committee on Intelligence on the approval of John Brennan as Director of the CIA. Some members of the Committee on Intelligence said that the White House should be as clear as possible to explain how decisions on the elimination of a particular person are being made.
In particular, they are interested in the question of what is the mechanism of decision-making in the event that a potential target of a drone suspected of links to terrorism is a U.S. citizen.
Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, is still at the embassy in London, Ecuador, where the founder of the Internet resource was granted political asylum.
British authorities refused to let him out of the country, arguing that they should extradite him to Sweden, where he is being investigated for accusation of sexual misbehavior.
Julian Assange has rejected the charges, but has agreed to cooperate in the case in Great Britain, resisting his extradition to Sweden due to his fear that Sweden my extradite him to U.S., though the U.S. administration has denied an intention to request his extradition.
By myfuamerica
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