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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  • Janet Messinger
    signed via 2012-12-06 12:35:46 -0800
  • John Hill Jr
    signed via 2012-12-06 12:23:21 -0800
  • Ana Cristina Lee Escudero
    signed via 2012-12-06 12:18:53 -0800
  • jeffery dorer
    signed via 2012-12-06 11:58:57 -0800
  • Eric Campbell
    signed via 2012-12-06 11:41:51 -0800
    eric campbell
  • Lisa McCellon
    signed via 2012-12-06 11:20:09 -0800
  • Ida Hurt
    signed via 2012-12-06 11:19:00 -0800
    WAR DOES NOT JUSTIFY KILLING ORDINARY PEOPLE! CALLING SUCH EVENTSCOLLATERAL DAMAGEDOES NOT HIDE THE KILLINGS ANY MORE. MOST THINKING PEOPLE KNOW COLLATERAL DAMAGE IS REALLY THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS WHO HAPPEN TO BE IN YOUR HARMFUL DRONES’ PATH. IT’S TIME TO BECOME AWARE OF THE TERRIBLE PRICE INNOCENT HUMANS ARE PAYING FOR YOUR FORM OF WARFARE.
  • Janet Mackin
    signed via 2012-12-06 11:12:48 -0800
  • William Leight
    signed via 2012-12-06 11:12:35 -0800
  • Jack Blatherwick
    signed 2012-12-06 11:11:52 -0800
    I have one question: Would we accept this “collateral damage” if it were white christian civilians? This policy is acceptable to the American public only because of our racial-religious bigotry. If “terrorists” were known to hang out next to a school in mid-Nebraska, we would not bomb the school in order to kill terrorists.
  • Marilyn Alterman
    signed via 2012-12-06 10:56:14 -0800
    As an American, I am hiding my head in shame.
  • John Kubisiak
    signed via 2012-12-06 10:54:26 -0800
  • Ruth Paine
    signed via 2012-12-06 10:32:25 -0800
  • Donald Cruser
    signed via 2012-12-06 10:32:23 -0800
    I would also like to see hearings into the use of drones to assassinate US citizens. I am finding that people of all political persuasions are alarmed at this flagrant abuse of presidential power.
  • Stewart Odom
    signed via 2012-12-06 10:29:26 -0800
  • Sal P
    signed 2012-12-06 10:19:45 -0800
  • Patricia Kirk
    signed via 2012-12-06 09:59:59 -0800
    THE USA HAS INVADED MORE COUNTRIES AND KILLED MORE INNOCENT PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER NATION, STOP , STOP, STOP
  • Noelle Schmitt
    signed via 2012-12-06 09:53:43 -0800
  • Janis Yeager
    signed via 2012-12-06 09:38:30 -0800
  • Jose Goity
    signed via 2012-12-06 09:37:45 -0800
    Any country which would be carrying actions equivalent to the drone strikes being carried by the US would be branded a terrorist country. This actions are shameful and immoral and are quickly further eroding the foreign public opinion of the US. In the long run this can only bring negative repercussions for the US and the World.
  • Kelly Lane
    signed via 2012-12-06 09:30:13 -0800
  • jean hoegler
    signed via 2012-12-06 09:24:09 -0800
  • Stephen Oviatt
    signed via 2012-12-06 09:13:54 -0800
  • Nancy B Perkins
    signed via 2012-12-06 09:12:56 -0800
  • Nancy Murray
    signed via 2012-12-06 09:06:49 -0800
  • Margaret Skoy
    signed via 2012-12-06 09:02:42 -0800
    Dehumanized. Unmanned drones murdering innocent children and innocent adults. Congress how would you feel if it was your child murdered by a drone? When will this insanity stop???
  • Sondraa Mort
    signed 2012-12-06 08:27:34 -0800
  • Andrew Levine
    signed via 2012-12-06 08:24:29 -0800
  • nancy moore
    signed via 2012-12-06 07:56:44 -0800
  • Kirk Palmer
    signed via 2012-12-06 07:56:33 -0800

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