Amy Goodman
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Can Any Court Hold U.S. Accountable For Killing Americans Overseas with Drone Strikes?
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April 8, 2014
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4:24Now PlayingA federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. government's killing of three Americans in Yemen drone strikes. The case was filed by the families of Samir Khan, Muslim cleric Anwar alAwlaki, his teenage son, Abdulrahman, accusing top U.S. officials of unlawful killings. But on Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer ruled the victims' constitutional rights were never violated, and said the U.S. officials involved cannot be held liable. We get reaction from Maria LaHood, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and one of the attorneys working on Anwar AlAwlaki's case. "The courts have abdicated their roles with torture, they've abdicated their roles with indefinite detention," LaHood says. "Here we thought finally the courts would uphold the Constitution with the killing of American citizens."
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