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The poo poo Avril Haines has done that should land her in the dock for crimes against humanity could fill a book. Let's start with this. She didn't just co-author the Obama-era drone assassination policy, she personally made the call to put people on the kill list, including at least one American citizen who was then assassinated via a missile strike without ever facing charges. quote:We know that Avril Haines, at the NSC, was in charge of determining whether it was legal or illegal to place people on John Brennan’s kill list. We know that in almost all cases that she said it was legal to put these names on the kill list, and people were subsequently killed by drone, including American citizens, like Anwar al-Awlaki and his son. They were American citizens who had never been charged with a crime. They had never faced their accusers in a court of law. There was no due process for them. She’s never had to answer for that. Newsweek had some reporting at the time that on a few occasions, she personally provided the legal justification for drone strikes in the middle of the night against people who weren't already on the pre-approved assassination list: https://www.newsweek.com/2013/06/26/avril-haines-least-likely-spy-237616.html Perhaps the most damning detail is the reporting at the time of how key her personal involvement was in pushing forward the drone killing program as a whole, which illustrates that she was a chief architect of this program and not simply a functionary cog in the machine carrying them out: quote:At one point, the entire initiative came close to foundering over one disagreement. It concerned the personal involvement of Obama (and potentially future presidents) in targeted-killing decisions. Since the beginning of his administration, Obama had made the extraordinary choice to personally sign off on lethal operations, known as "direct actions," away from conventional battlefields. But over time, the CIA and the military began to chafe at the close White House involvement in their operations. Meanwhile, some of Obama's aides sought to insulate him from the specter of the president having his finger on the trigger, particularly after stories emerged about presidential "kill lists." In one of the drafts of the presidential guidance approved for circulation by the White House, the president was taken out of the decision chain for individual strikes—and kill authority was shifted to the CIA director or secretary of Defense. (note that the outcome of this "success" was that she personally became the authorizing authority for many drone killings, including the later killing of American citizens) In 2015, the Senate was investigating Bush-era torture by the CIA and CIA-supervised allies at black sites around the world. The CIA responded to the investigation by gaining illegal access to Senate computers to see what they were up to. The CIA inspector general recommended disciplinary action against those responsible, but they were overruled by an adhoc "accountability board" led by Avril Haines who was CIA deputy director at the time. She then proceeded to black out 94% of the torture report. (https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2021/01/15/what-senators-need-ask-avril-haines-her-confirmation-hearing-today) She also endorsed Gina Haspel, a woman who was site director for a CIA torture prison in Thailand under George W Bush and who personally destroyed video evidence of those and other torture crimes, to become CIA Director under Trump. Some of those videos reportedly contained victims vomiting and screaming for mercy while being tortured by their American captors. Most recently, she's been working as a consultant with WestExec, the ghouls-for-hire shop co-founded by Anthony Blinken, Biden's Secretary of State-to-be. Those contracts included advising Palantir, which has been selling technology solutions to ICE to facilitate deportation raids, then attempting to sanitize mentions of that relationship from her official biographical details. quote:“Palantir’s information technology systems have given the Trump administration the ability to carry out mass deportations that have been tearing apart and terrorizing our immigrant communities,” said Yasmine Taeb, senior policy counsel at Demand Progress, a group that marshals support for causes ranging from human rights to transparency.
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