There Must Be Accountability for U.S. Drone Strikes

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, heralded as the leading authority for drone-strike casualty numbers by the recent report entitled Living Under Drones by Stanford and NYU researchers, reports 178 children have died in Yemen and Pakistan as a result of U.S. drone strikes. War Costs has produced a video and report on the topic. 

Please consider joining us in our appeal to leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives to reintroduce H. Res. 819,  which calls for more accountability and transparency for U.S. Drone policy.

Speaker Boehner and Minority Leader Pelosi, 

H. Res. 819 calls for the release of the legal justification of U.S. drone strikes that have killed civilians in targeted areas, as numerous reports have detailed. 

Please reintroduce this bill to the House floor this month, as too much of U.S. government's drone policy is kept secret from Congress and the American people.

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  • Martina Volpp
    signed via 2013-11-17 16:50:50 -0800
  • Amanda Dorn
    signed 2013-10-30 18:14:54 -0700
  • Emmy Koponen
    signed 2013-10-26 19:37:45 -0700
  • Valerie Matthews
    signed 2013-10-10 12:53:37 -0700
  • Joel Morrison
    signed 2013-09-26 06:23:29 -0700
  • Melisander Wildberger
    signed via 2013-09-12 12:19:42 -0700
  • Bob Norhhouse
    signed 2013-09-06 10:35:14 -0700
    Stop this murder!
  • Margaret Faubion
    signed 2013-06-19 10:30:57 -0700
    We are creating 10 new terrorists for every person killed by drones in Pakistan, or elsewhere in the world. This travesty of ‘signature kills’ by remote must end.
  • Raymond Owes
    signed 2013-06-19 02:21:55 -0700
    The murder of children and innocents must end. I pray that God will hold all of those, without exception, accountable and responsible.
  • Betty Gillmore
    signed 2013-06-17 12:54:30 -0700
  • Al Sears
    signed 2013-06-13 16:19:23 -0700
  • Chad Hinden
    signed 2013-06-12 18:28:23 -0700
  • Roxie Harrington
    signed 2013-06-06 22:03:02 -0700
  • Tisha Douthwaite
    signed 2013-06-02 21:46:27 -0700
  • Nathan Myers
    signed 2013-06-01 21:25:50 -0700
  • Bruce Braley
    signed 2013-05-31 15:02:59 -0700
  • Daniel Partlow
    signed 2013-05-29 06:03:42 -0700
  • Joanne Dixon
    signed 2013-05-28 13:57:50 -0700
  • Lois Jordan
    signed 2013-05-28 13:55:00 -0700
  • Dave Wallace
    signed 2013-05-28 12:30:11 -0700
  • Ernie Love
    signed 2013-05-28 06:41:59 -0700
  • Deborah Styka
    signed 2013-05-28 06:35:23 -0700
  • paul mooney
    signed 2013-05-27 16:13:42 -0700
  • Alison Conant
    signed 2013-05-27 15:26:21 -0700
  • Margit Johansson
    signed 2013-05-26 19:33:03 -0700
  • Robert Crowe
    signed 2013-05-26 17:10:00 -0700
    Article I, Section 8, of our Constitution states “The Congress shall have the Power To provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;…To declare War.” While the representative body of the people with the duty to deliberate and act on questions of killing within sovereign nations in our name abdicates its responsibility, unrestrained, brutal, criminally negligent, and secret killing is being carried out by the executive branch using unmanned drones. Drone technology makes it possible to kill from the comfort of an arm chair thousands of miles from the target, therefore it is susceptible to terrible abuse even by those with the best of intentions. This situation cries out for thorough study, full disclosure, full deliberation by the people and their Congress, very tight regulation and prohibitions on its use without the express consent and direction of the Congress speaking for the people, as required in our Constitution.
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  • Pat Brunson
    signed 2013-05-26 16:01:50 -0700
    I do not agree with this policy nor do I condone it!
  • Elizabeth Cahoe
    signed 2013-05-26 12:44:06 -0700

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