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White House to reveal memo on drones
WASHINGTON – On the eve of a critical Senate vote and under court order, the Obama administration signaled it will publicly reveal a secret memo describing its legal justification for using drones to kill U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism overseas.
Two administration officials told The Associated Press that the Justice Department has decided not to appeal a Court of Appeals ruling requiring disclosure of a redacted version of the memo under the Freedom of Information Act.
The decision to release the documents comes as the Senate is to vote Wednesday on advancing President Barack Obama’s nomination of the memo’s author, Harvard professor and former Justice Department official David Barron, to sit on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston.
Inmate scheduled to be executed today
ST. LOUIS – Attorneys for a condemned Missouri inmate remained hopeful Tuesday that a court will halt his execution, which would be the first in the nation following a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma last month that left a condemned man writhing on a gurney before he died of a heart attack 40 minutes later.
Russell Bucklew, 46, is scheduled to be executed by injection at 12:01 a.m. today for killing a southeast Missouri man during a violent crime spree in 1996.
Associated Press
