{"id":577265,"date":"2021-06-30T11:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T15:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=577265"},"modified":"2021-06-30T11:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T15:50:32","slug":"aclu-leads-113-group-coalition-demanding-biden-stops-lethal-airstrikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aclu-leads-113-group-coalition-demanding-biden-stops-lethal-airstrikes\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU Leads 113-Group Coalition Demanding Biden Stops Lethal Airstrikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faclu-leads-113-group-coalition-demanding-biden-stops-lethal-airstrikes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=577265&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote a letter cosigned by a coalition of 113 groups to President Joe Biden Wednesday, demanding he stops \u201clethal\u201d airstrikes.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. airstrike program has resulted in wars, violent conflicts, civilian casualties, human displacement and indefinite military detention, the groups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/sites\/default\/files\/field_document\/ngo_letter_to_president_biden_on_lethal_strikes_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> in the letter addressed to President Joe Biden. The letter demanded the president end the program roughly two decades after it was initiated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuccessive presidents have now claimed the unilateral power to authorize secretive extrajudicial killing outside any recognized battlefield, with no meaningful accountability for wrongful deaths and civilian lives lost and injured,\u201d the groups wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty years into a war-based approach that has undermined and violated fundamental rights, we urge you to abandon it and embrace an approach that advances our collective human security,\u201d the letter to Biden continued. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/27\/joe-biden-iran-iraq-syria-air-strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: US Conducts Airstrikes In Iraq, Syria Against Iran-Backed Militia Groups)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7226990\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7226990\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7226990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233360621-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"President Joe Biden addresses U.S. Air Force personnel in the U.K. on June 9. (Joe Giddens\/WPA Pool\/Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233360621-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233360621-181x120.jpg 181w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233360621-620x410-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233360621-768x508-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233360621-1536x1016-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233360621-2048x1355-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7226990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden addresses U.S. Air Force personnel in the U.K. on June 9. (Joe Giddens\/WPA Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Amnesty International USA, CODEPINK, Human Rights Watch and Sunrise Movement all signed onto the letter.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the U.S. military <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/27\/joe-biden-iran-iraq-syria-air-strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> it conducted \u201cnecessary\u201d airstrikes in Syria and Iraq targeting weapons depots linked to Iran-backed militias. In February, the president <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/25\/missile-strike-iran-biden-iraq-embassy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved<\/a> similar strikes on Iran-backed militias in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisMurphyCT\/status\/1409337812822921216\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released a statement<\/a> this week, saying he was concerned the increasing hostilities in the Middle East would qualify the conflict as a war. Congress must approve a war declaration under the War Powers Act, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Former Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump all approved dozens of counterterrorism drone strikes throughout the Middle East, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/international-security\/reports\/americas-counterterrorism-wars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to New America. Shortly after taking office, though, Biden quietly placed limits on military drone strikes and initiated a broad review of the program, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/03\/us\/politics\/biden-drones.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU letter celebrated the review and said it could help the federal government \u201cchart a new path forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote a letter cosigned by a coalition of 113 groups to President Joe Biden Wednesday, demanding he stops \u201clethal\u201d airstrikes.The U.S. airstrike program has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313729,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233360621-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"ACLU Leads 113-Group Coalition Demanding Biden Stops Lethal Airstrikes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233360621-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"ACLU Leads 113-Group Coalition Demanding Biden Stops Lethal Airstrikes","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}