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From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Just Foreign Policy</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@justforeignpolicy.org">info@justforeignpolicy.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:34 PM<br>Subject: A16: Let Sarah Knuckey and James Cavallaro Testify About the Drone Strikes<br>
To: <a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><br><br>
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<p><b>Tell your Senator to call the authors of the Living Under Drones report to testify during an upcoming hearing on the drone strike policy.<br>
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<p>On April 16, the Constitution subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, is holding <b>a hearing on the drone strike policy for the first time.</b> [1]<br>
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This could be a historic opportunity for the public to learn what has actually been happening on the ground as a result of the drone strike policy in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. But that will only be true if Durbin calls the right witnesses. <b>Durbin needs to call witnesses who can speak authoritatively and directly to what has been happening on the ground.</b><br>
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<b>Sarah Knuckey and James Cavallaro are professors of law who went to Pakistan, interviewed drone strike survivors, and wrote a report about it, "Living Under Drones."</b> [2] If they are called to testify, what they say in the hearing will be reported in the media, and Americans will find out about what has been really happening. <br>
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<b>We're writing to you because you have a Senator who serves on the subcommittee.</b> Can you write to them and urge them to support calling Sarah Knuckey and James Cavallaro to testify? You can also urge them to publicly support issuing a subpoena for the Office of Legal Counsel drone strike memos if the Administration will not willingly hand them over to the Senate Judiciary Committee.<br>
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1. "A16: Let Sarah Knuckey and James Cavallaro Testify About the Drone Strikes," Robert Naiman, Huffington Post, 3/19/2013 <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bbYi2cnuMHqNdDGtrQ0JC4s3voZ4Ho35" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/senate-drone-hearings_b_2910146.html</a><br>
2. You can watch a video about the report at the link above. Or, if you are so inclined, read the full report here: <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=O62LOlWCcN2A8TFUN9HCbos3voZ4Ho35" target="_blank">http://www.livingunderdrones.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Stanford-NYU-LIVING-UNDER-DRONES.pdf</a></p>
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