Federal Judge May Release New Documents Related to Obamas Targeted Assassination ProgramBy Derrick Broze Judge McMahon said she will give the government time to vet opinions and orders for classification issues that might escape the notice of a reader of news media in which information that the Government considers to be classified routinely appears. The first document relates to the Presidential Policy Guidance, or PPG, a classified record that sets out the law and policy that the government must follow when it carries out targeted killings, according to the ACLU. President Obama issued the PPG in May 2013, but did not make the documentpublic, instead only releasingsome of its mostgeneral standards. The ACLU writes: Those vague standards raise as many questions as they answer: When does an individual pose a continuing and imminent threat to the United States? How does the government decide when capture of a target is feasible? What informs the governments determination that there is a near certainty that non-combatants will not be injured or killed? As the government has described it, the PPG answers these questions. And as weve argued to the court, the government has no right to withhold this kind of document one that regulates government officials by providing substantive and procedural rules that govern their actions from the public. The other two documents are reports fromthe Department of Defense which were submitted to Congress in 2014. The two reports detail the legal and policy standards of the PPG, as well as an assessment of groups that the U.S. government is waging war against. The reports also explain the legal differences between associated forces, affiliates, and adherents of al-Qaeda. The ACLU was provided these documents in the past, albeit heavily redacted versions, and is now seeking to learn more about what the Obama Administration is hiding. Without being able to read the standards by which the U.S. government isrunningtheir lethal program the public will remain in the dark.The public also deserves to know under which legal authority the U.S. government believes it is operating. The ACLU states that Judge McMahon indicated that a final decision would likely arrive in the next several months. Interestingly, McMahon has previously called out the federal government for creating acts of terrorism. In the case of the Newburgh Four terrorists, Judge McMahon wrote that the FBIcreated acts of terrorism out of his fantasies of bravado and bigotry, and then made those fantasies come true. The ACLU has also been fighting to uncover new information related to the Presidential Kill List, also known as the disposition matrix.The Washington Post first reported on the disposition matrix in 2012: Over the past two years, the Obama administration has been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, a next-generation targeting list called the disposition matrix. The matrix contains the names of terrorism suspects arrayed against an accounting of the resources being marshaled to track them down, including sealed indictments and clandestine operations. U.S. officials said the database is designed to go beyond existing kill lists, mapping plans for the disposition of suspects beyond the reach of American drones. Although the matrix is a work in progress, the effort to create it reflects a reality setting in among the nations counterterrorism ranks: The United States conventional wars are winding down, but the government expects to continue adding names to kill or capture lists for years. For the last four years, New York Times journalist Charlie Savage has waged a legal battle against the Obama administration, seeking to reveal the governments legal justifications for assassinating terror suspects without a trial. Specifically, Savage sued the Obama administration in an attempt to obtain details about the murder of al-Qaeda affiliated cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki. Al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico and eventually found himself on the U.S. governments radar under suspicion of terrorism. On September 30, 2011, drones sent by the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command flew into Yemen and bombed al-Awlaki and al-Qaeda propagandist Samir Khan. The case drew public criticism not only because al-Awlaki was an American citizen, but because several weeks after his death, another American drone killed al-Awlakis 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman. He was also a U.S. citizen living in Yemen. A 2014 ruling by Second Circuit court forced the release of a memorandumfrom the Office of Legal Counsel. The New York Times and the American Civil Liberties Union fought for the release of 11 other OLC memos, but the court protected 10 of them from release. The Times and the ACLU appealed the decision, but a three-judge panel from the Second Circuit recently denied the release of the documents. What this means is that the public continues to live in ignorance when it comes to understanding how the U.S. government is waging its War on Terror. The average U.S. citizen is likely unaware that the President operates a targeted assassination program and maintains a kill list. This is because the corporate mediais doing their bestto keep you in the dark. However, we must remember that all truth eventually comes to light and the targeted drone assassination program and disposition matrix are no different. While the U.S. government would like to maintain a veil of secrecy over the American people it is simply no longer feasible. The American people are waking up and with that new awareness tyrants will find it difficult to continue their march towards secrecy and control. This article first appeared at Ben Swanns TruthInMedia.com. Derrick Broze is an investigative journalist and liberty activist. He is the founder of the TheConsciousResistance.com. Follow him on Twitter. It is only a short matter of time before we begin seeing Predator Drones over Albuquerque and San Francisco. I support Bernie Sanders for President but despite of his success I doubt that America is waking up against our secretive government that will be in worse hands in the hands of Trump or Hillary. Well, if you can explain to me how Mr. Sanders is going to give the farm away without costing anyone any amount of moneyfine. You know, in the 60s the Hippies tried the Communal Socialism ideamight want to find out how well that went. Good luckI would rather stay in the USA than have to suffer in the USSA. Youre already suffering in the USSA, but you dont feel it enough yet. The American Nightmare is about to walk up everyones stairs, except for the one$ who work incessantly to make $ure it will happen, the ones electing your presidents with their money for their self-promoting global $ucce$$. Money is not everything, and you cant eat money when only money is left for survival as everything else has been destroyed by the never-ending profit philosophy/psychopathy. Why dont you try Bernies plan on a small scale. Get together with the people in your neighborhood and everybody pick a resident to take care of everyone. Then all of the rest of you give that resident 95% of your money to take care of all of you. Dont worry, you can trust them, just like you can trust Bernie and the govt, theyre not going to steal your money, theyre collecting it to help you, just like the government always does. Thats the same thing the govt did to the Indians.just move on the reservation and well take care of you. Many contend the gov provided smallpox blankets to the Indians. Bernie is a zionist. Nothing good can come from him or anyone else Im afraid, friend. That ship sailed so long ago i wasnt even here to see it. The NWO cockroaches are not going to let someone as meaningless as a politician to stand in their way. Its just not gonna happen. Everything you see is smoke and mirrors. An act to give the impression that freedom is still the backbone of society. Nothing has ever been further from the truth My issue is that America is not awakening. Not that Bernie is going to change that. As to your concern, if America waste $3 T USD in health care every year leaving people underinsured because there is no reign on the profiteerers, leading to uncontroled costs,we are going to seize in taxes $3 T USD every year to provide health care without premiums, deductibles and co-payments.Healthcare will be rationally consolidated in a single payer, still allowing for competition for those that exell in service can get the edge. With what America already spend in health care medicare premiums, medicaid, ERISA, BCBS, private insurance, etc. probably we will not need the same amount in taxes. All advance economies today have some sort of single payer. To find out how it works you do not need to go to the hippies, more interested in smoking pot and free love than in the future and public health. On large scale Bernies model is available in many countries with different variations. Trump is standing tall and has been fired upon by the gold collar scum crowd and he still lays them out flat. 