Drone papers

ACLU FILES NEW APPEAL IN DRONE LAWSUIT

The Central Intelligence Agency is under renewed legal pressure to release “thousands” of records pertaining to its international drone war, followingan appeal filed Monday by the American Civil Liberties in Washington, D.C. The motion comes just days after The Intercept published an eight-part seriesbased on cache of secret documents detailing the U.S. military’s parallel reliance on unmanned airstrikes in the war on terror.

While The Intercept’s series, The Drone Papers, offered new insights into the Pentagon’s drone missions in Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan, the CIA’s covert drone war has largely remained an official black hole.