'Shameful': Trump Ends Rule Requiring US to Disclose Number of Civilians Killed by Drone Strikes
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"Trump has been killing an obscene amount of civilians with drones. Now he's making things more secretive."
by: Jake Johnson
"This decision will hide from the public the government's own tally of the total number of deaths it causes every year in its lethal force program," Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's national security project. (Photo: U.S. Air Force/Lt Col Leslie Pratt/Public Domain)
In his latest attack on transparency, President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded a rule requiring U.S. intelligence officials to publicly disclose the number of civilians killed by drone strikes.
"This is a shameful decision that will shroud this administration's actions in even more secrecy with little accountability for its victims."
—Daphne Eviatar, Amnesty I...