Memorando filtrado revela motivos legales para la “lista de asesinatos” de Estados Unidos
Se revelaron por primera vez los motivos legales del gobierno de Barack Obama para asesinar a ciudadanos estadounidenses sin presentar cargos en su contra. Un documento secreto del Departamento de Justicia al que NBC News tuvo acceso sostiene que el gobierno puede perseguir ciudadanos que sean "líderes operativos superiores" de Al Qaeda o “una fuerza asociada”, incluso sin que haya información que indique que estén involucrados en un plan activo para atacar a los Estados Unidos. El documento se describe como un “memorando blanco” que se otorgó a los miembros del Comité de Inteligencia y el Comité Judicial del Senado el año pasado. Su publicación se produce tras una serie de esfuerzos fallidos por parte de los grupos de libertades civiles de obtener las justificaciones legales del gobierno por el asesinato dirigido de un ciudadano estadounidense.fuente Democracy News http://www.democracynow.org/es/2013/2/5/titulares#251
WASHINGTON — Obama administration lawyers have asserted that it would be lawful to kill a United States citizen if “an informed, high-level official” of the government decided that the target was a ranking figure in Al Qaeda who posed “an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States” and if his capture was not feasible, according to a 16-page document made public on Monday.
The unsigned and undated Justice Department “white paper,” obtained by NBC News, is the most detailed analysis yet to come into public view regarding the Obama legal team’s views about the lawfulness of killing, without a trial, an American citizen who executive branch officials decide is an operational leader of Al Qaeda or one of its allies.
fuente The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/us/politics/us-memo-details-views-on-killing-citizens-in-al-qaeda.html
The 54 governments identified in this report span the continents of Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America, and include: Afghanistan3, Albania, Algeria, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong,4 Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Libya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritania, Morocco, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.5
"The report, to be made public Tuesday by the Open Society Justice Initiative, a rights advocacy group, is the most detailed external account of other countries’ assistance to the United States, including things like permitting the C.I.A. to run secret interrogation prisons on their soil and allowing the agency to use their airports for refueling while moving prisoners around the world. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/us/politics/r
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