He also served as Deputy Prime Minister before becoming Prime Minister and General Secretary of the General People's Congress of the Libyan Jamahiriya. He assumed that post in March 2006. Mathaba explained that he wasn't Gaddafi's prime minister. He served as "legally elected head of the ...
Patrick Link
May 29, 2012 - Public
Kudos to ABC's Jake Tapper for asking the sort of thing most reporters don't ask at the White House:
“One of the things that I think was most interesting was the fact that one of the ways — one of the ways that the administration has been able to assert that there have been so few civilian casualties in any of these drone attacks is because the presumption is that if you are in these locations, you are guilty of terrorism and the — there’s almost a ‘guilty until proven innocent’ quality.
I’m wondering how on earth the administration can square that with the president’s past language on human rights and avoiding civilian casualties?”
“One of the things that I think was most interesting was the fact that one of the ways — one of the ways that the administration has been able to assert that there have been so few civilian casualties in any of these drone attacks is because the presumption is that if you are in these locations, you are guilty of terrorism and the — there’s almost a ‘guilty until proven innocent’ quality.
I’m wondering how on earth the administration can square that with the president’s past language on human rights and avoiding civilian casualties?”
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