From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Fri Jul 1 20:33:43 2016 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 16:33:43 -0400 Subject: [Peace] JFP alert: Platform Committee: Oppose TPP & West Bank Settlements Message-ID: Our first post-drafting committee, pre-Orlando alert. In addition to signing the petition, please help us get to the DNC Platform Committee members from Illinois and lobby them on these two points. Here's what we know about Illinois so far: Clem Balanoff IL Pamella Gronemeyer IL Troy LaRaviere IL If you have any links to getting to these folks, please let me know. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Just Foreign Policy Date: Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 1:53 PM Subject: Platform Committee: Oppose TPP & West Bank Settlements To: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org [image: Just Foreign Policy] Dear Robert, Urge the Democratic Platform Committee to oppose the TPP & settlements in the West Bank. Take Action The Democratic Platform drafting committee rejected amendments to oppose the TPP agreement [1] and to oppose Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank . [2] The TPP is opposed by Secretary Clinton, Senator Sanders, the overwhelming majority of House Democrats, the labor movement, the climate justice movement, and groups concerned about access to essential medicines. The Sanders campaign and J Street [3] had asked the drafting committee to oppose settlement construction and expansion in the West Bank, which are a key obstacle to a diplomatic resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. But in Orlando on July 8-9, the full platform committee will consider these issues again . 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URL: From fboyle at illinois.edu Sat Jul 2 13:53:05 2016 From: fboyle at illinois.edu (Boyle, Francis A) Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 13:53:05 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Obama's Drone Murder Report Message-ID: Obama’s drone order: Institutionalizing a state murder operation In the case of the presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, she signed off on them as Obama’s secretary of state. Along with Clinton’s “lawyer” Harold Killer Koh. And now the Yale Law Mafia UI College of Law has invited out Yale Law Mafia Killer Koh to Campaign here on October 28 to get his Yale Law Mafia Boss Clinton elected President ten days later and continue this Drone Murder Campaign of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Verging on Genocide against Muslims, making the Faculty of the College of Law Accessories after the Fact to Koh/Clinton Crimes from 2009 to 2013, and potential Accessories Before the Fact to Koh/Clinton Crimes from 2017 to 2021 and perhaps to 2025. MURDER INC at the College of Law. Unless we stop them! Hey! Hey! Illinois Law Say! How many kids! Did you kill today! Fab Obama’s drone order: Institutionalizing a state murder operation 2 July 2016 Over three-and-a-half months after promising “in the coming weeks” an “assessment” of the number of civilians slaughtered in illegal drone missile strikes carried out in countries “outside of areas of active hostilities,” the Obama administration on Friday released numbers that represent a fraction of those documented by various independent investigations. The report, drafted by the office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), was accompanied by an executive order reaffirming that the US president has the unquestionable right to order the state murder of anyone in any part of the world, while claiming a commitment to “promote best practices that reduce the likelihood of civilian casualties.” The words “best practices,” drawn from the dry lexicon of corporate management, recur three times in the US president’s executive order, underscoring the way in which the methods of Murder Inc. have become routinized and institutionalized within the American capitalist state. It is to further this process that the White House released its phony numbers, along with the hypocritical order feigning commitment to reducing the number of civilians killed by the Hellfire missiles fired from thousands of miles away by CIA and Pentagon operatives viewing their victims over video screens. The new policy, according to a White House release, is designed to “develop a sustainable legal and policy architecture to guide our counterterrorism activities going forward,” and to “institutionalize and enhance best practices regarding US counterterrorism operations and other US operations involving the use of force...” In other words, with barely six months left in office, Barack Obama is determined to secure a core element of his loathsome political legacy—turning the White House Oval Office into headquarters for drawing up “kill lists” and organizing “targeted killings,” i.e., political assassinations of foreign nationals and US citizens alike. The Obama White House has set into motion a drone expansion program that will increase the military’s capacity to launch assassination strikes by 50 percent, while keeping the covert CIA drone program in place. All of those who appear in a position to succeed him have endorsed drone killings. In the case of the presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, she signed off on them as Obama’s secretary of state. As for the pretense of concern for the “collateral damage” inflicted by this campaign—men, women and children who are not deliberately targeted but nonetheless blown to pieces—it is intended merely to provide a pseudo-humanitarian cover for cold-blooded murder. Even the New York Times, which has in the past defended Obama’s drone assassinations, was compelled to note that the executive order and the casualty estimate from the DNI were released on the Friday afternoon of a long holiday weekend. This is a traditional time period for releases that the government hopes will escape close public scrutiny. In this case, it is for good reason. According to the estimate provided by the DNI, the number of civilians killed “outside areas of active hostilities,” i.e., excluding the wholesale slaughter in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, between Obama’s inauguration in January 2009 and the end of 2015, amounted to a grand total of between 64 and 116. This compared in the US intelligence estimate to between 2,372 and 2,581 “combatant” deaths. This admission represents an incremental change from when the architect of the drone murder program, now CIA director, John Brennan, claimed in 2011 that over the previous year there had not been “a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities” of the remote-control killing machine. At the time, Pakistan was counting its civilian victims in the hundreds, if not thousands, including 41 tribal leaders gathered in an open air, government-approved meeting in March of that year, who were ripped to pieces by four Hellfire missiles fired from multiple US drones. Nonetheless, the numbers now provided by the DNI are absurdly low. Among the most cited sources on the subject, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has provided a conservative estimate that as many as 1,138 civilians have been killed by American drones—that is, tens times as many as are admitted by Washington. Even this figure is a serious underestimation of the real human toll of Obama’s “targeted killing” program. A study done in 2014 by the human rights group Reprieve documented that in attempting to assassinate 41 individuals deemed by the White House to be “terrorists”—a category that includes anyone resisting American occupation or opposing US policy—drone strikes killed an estimated 1,147 people. Among those reacting to Thursday’s press release was Letta Tayler, a Human Rights Watch researcher who documented through interviews with witnesses, relatives and officials the deaths of at least 57 civilians in US drone strikes in Yemen between 2009 and 2013. “I find it difficult to believe that in examining just seven attacks I happened upon well over half of the civilian deaths that the US acknowledges,” Tayler told the Washington Post . One explanation for the immense discrepancy between the US government’s figures and those of virtually all other sources is that the Pentagon and the CIA have a policy of presumption of guilt for anyone killed by a drone missile. Males between the ages of 18 and 80 are automatically deemed “combatants,” and in many cases women and children are treated the same way. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper provided a simpler—and chilling—explanation Friday for the disparity in casualty estimates: the higher totals were the result of the “deliberate spread of misinformation by some actors, including terrorist organizations.” The meaning is clear. Those questioning a global assassination program carried out in the name of a “war on terror” are themselves suspect of acting in league with terrorists and, logically, potential targets. The drone murder program—the signature policy of the presidency of Barack Obama—sums up the criminality not only of the president himself, but also of those he serves, the parasitical financial oligarchy and the vast military-intelligence apparatus. In the defense of their interests, war abroad is inevitably joined with repression at home. The Obama administration’s move to sanctify this assassination program as a permanent institution of the American state must serve as a serious warning to the working class. Bill Van Auken Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 8:47 PM To: C. G. Estabrook Cc: Peace Discuss ; Karen Aram ; C. G. Estabrook ; David Green ; David Johnson ; Stuart Levy ; Karen Medina ; Szoke, Ron ; Mildred O'brien ; Peace Discuss ; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com' ; Readel, Karin ; Estabrook, Carl G ; 'Belden Fields' ; 'jmachota at shout.net' ; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List' ; 'Bryan Savage' ; Hoffman, Valerie J ; Miller, Joseph Thomas Subject: RE: AWARE on the Air, June 28 As I know from long and sad experience here at the College of Law, so-called University of Illinois “whistleblower protection” is a joke and a fraud when it comes to protecting me from retaliation. So I am asking for a Volunteer to file a Complaint with the Illinois Inspector General. Fab. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 7:39 PM To: C. G. Estabrook > Cc: Peace Discuss >; Karen Aram >; C. G. Estabrook >; David Green >; David Johnson >; Stuart Levy >; Karen Medina >; Szoke, Ron >; Mildred O'brien >; Peace Discuss >; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com' >; Readel, Karin >; Estabrook, Carl G >; 'Belden Fields' >; 'jmachota at shout.net' >; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List' >; 'Bryan Savage' >; Hoffman, Valerie J >; Miller, Joseph Thomas > Subject: RE: AWARE on the Air, June 28 Examples of allegations of violations by public employees that may be investigated by the OEIG include, but are not limited to: fraud, abuse of authority, corruption, theft of state property, improper use of state time, property, or other resources for prohibited political purposes Maggie Hickey, Executive Inspector General This website is intended to provide you with information and resources related to the functions of this office. The menu above provides immediate access to our publicly disclosed investigative reports, related decisions, newsletters and other information. You may file a secure, encrypted online complaint by simply clicking on the following: online complaint link. If you have questions, you may contact us by clicking the following: online information request. Actually, I have already caught the College of Law in a prima facie violation of the Illinois Statute prohibiting the use of University Resources for electoral campaign purposes by means of the following Official Notice using the University Logo and web-site to announce Killer Koh’s October 28 Lecture here, ten days before the presidential election involving his Yale Law Mafia Boss Mrs Clinton when he is a prominent member of her presidential election campaign and her lawyer. It took University Resources to prepare, post and host this Notice on a University web-site. We know for a fact that last year the Illinois Inspector General sanctioned a professor for only ONE email message on his University Account related to an electoral campaign. Beyond this Notice, has there also been even one iota of coordination between COL/KOH and His Clinton Presidential Campaign on this October 28 lecture date? Emails, phones, faxes, preparations, reservations, invitations, etc? Between COL/KOH and the National Democratic Party? Between COL/KOH and the Champaign Democratic Party? The Illinois Inspector General has the power and the obligation to get to the bottom of this. But she has no authority to act on her own. Someone must first file a Complaint. Is there a Volunteer in the House? Fab. [https://www.law.illinois.edu/resources/images/imark-50.png]ILLINOIS | LAW INTRANET · Admissions · Faculty · Academics · Careers Services · Library · Alumni Relations · Giving · Calendar o Upcoming Featured Events o Upcoming Lectures and Conferences o Academic Calendar o Schedule an Event Top of Form Harold Koh (Yale) to deliver the 2016 Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law Friday, October 28, 2016 Max L. Rowe Auditorium, Law Building 12:00 PM–1:00 PM The University of Illinois College of Law presents the 2016 Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law, featuring Harold Koh. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will be held in the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Pavilion following the lecture. Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Professor Koh is one of the country’s leading experts in public and private international law, national security law, and human rights. Bottom of Form College of Law 504 East Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Illinois 61820 Phone (217) 333-0931 Fax (217) 244-1478 © 2016 University of Illinois Quick Links · About · ABA Required Disclosures · Administrative Directory · Calendar · For the Media · Illini Union Bookstore · Visiting the College · Webmail · Give Now Illinois Law Social Media · Twitter · Facebook · LinkedIn · YouTube · RSS · Sina Weibo Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:53 PM To: C. G. Estabrook > Cc: Peace Discuss >; Karen Aram >; C. G. Estabrook >; David Green >; David Johnson >; Stuart Levy >; Karen Medina >; Szoke, Ron >; Mildred O'brien >; Peace Discuss >; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com' >; Readel, Karin >; Estabrook, Carl G >; 'Belden Fields' >; 'jmachota at shout.net' >; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List' >; 'Bryan Savage' >; Hoffman, Valerie J >; Miller, Joseph Thomas > Subject: RE: AWARE on the Air, June 28 Ok. Thanks Carl.Thanks for having me on. Thanks for the support. And I hope everyone can mobilize to terminate the Killer Koh Lecture here at the College of Law on October 28. Fab Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: C. G. Estabrook [mailto:carl at newsfromneptune.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:48 PM To: Boyle, Francis A > Cc: Peace Discuss > Subject: AWARE on the Air, June 28 Francis— The members of AWARE appreciate your participation in tonight’s program (Episode #369). The program is archived and may be viewed at >. We’d be delighted to have you join us again whenever your schedule allows. Regards, Carl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1625 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From fboyle at illinois.edu Sat Jul 2 14:28:07 2016 From: fboyle at illinois.edu (Boyle, Francis A) Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 14:28:07 +0000 Subject: [Peace] MURDER INC Killer Koh Invited to Campaign for MURDER INC Clinton by MURDER INC College of Law On October 28, 2016! Message-ID: Hillary Clinton signed off on drone assassinations, emails reveal {along with her Consigliere Harold Killer Koh} What is remarkable about the latest revelation is that it does link Clinton {and her Consigliere Killer Koh} directly to criminal activity, only not in the sense long alleged by her right-wing political opponents. The criminal activity is her personal participation in the campaign of drone-missile assassination, conducted by the CIA and Pentagon at the direction of President Obama, in complete violation of international law. And the Yale Law Mafia UI College of Law has already held out publicly that Yale Law Mafia Consigliere Killer Koh is an “expert” on international law and human rights. In other words, the Yale Law Mafia UI College of Law is endorsing, ratifying, condoning, whitewashing, sanitizing, and approving all the international and domestic crimes that Yale Law Mafia Consigliere Killer Koh and his Yale Law Mafia Boss Clinton committed from 2009-2013, thus rendering the Yale Law Mafia Faculty of the College of Law Accessories After The Fact to them all. MURDER INC at the College of Law. And the Yale Law Mafia Faculty of the College of Law will become Accessories Before The Fact to all the international and domestic crimes that Yale Law Mafia Clinton/Koh will commit from 2017 to 2021 and perhaps 2025. Unless we stop them! Hey! Hey! Illinois Law Say! How many kids! Did you kill today! Fab By Patrick Martin 11 June 2016 In his online endorsement of Hillary Clinton to succeed him in the White House, President Obama declared that she was more qualified than any previous candidate for the presidency. A report Friday in the Wall Street Journal indicates that these “qualifications” include personal participation in approving drone-missile assassinations. Clinton’s role in the chain of command leading to the incineration of thousands of people in Pakistan, most of them innocent civilians, is one of the secrets concealed in the long-running investigation of her use of a private email server while Secretary of State in the Obama administration. The Wall Street Journal article reports that in 2011 and 2012, after a series of internal disputes between the CIA and the State Department over how drone missile strikes in Pakistan were complicating US diplomatic relations with the government in Islamabad, the State Department was given the right to veto missile strikes if their timing was considered especially provocative to the Pakistani government. The US Ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, or another official at the embassy, would be informed of drone strikes in advance by the CIA, and would then consult with the State Department, going up the line all the way to Secretary of State Clinton, about whether to formally “concur” or “non-concur” in the action. According to the Journal, such communications would normally pass through the internal State Department communications system, with Clinton given oral briefing and responding in the same way. However, there were some instances, usually when officials were on vacation or during holiday periods, or when the high-security system was too cumbersome and an immediate reply was needed, when an aide would send Clinton an email about an impending strike, for her response. The Journal wrote: “The vaguely worded messages didn’t mention the ‘CIA,’ ‘drones’ or details about the militant targets, officials said.” These emails are apparently among those now considered top-secret by the intelligence agencies, although they were not so classified by the State Department at the time. As the Journal noted, “The CIA drone campaign, though widely reported in Pakistan, is treated as secret by the U.S. government. Under strict U.S. classification rules, U.S. officials have been barred from discussing strikes publicly and even privately outside of secure communications systems.” Significantly, the Journal, whose editorial page is ferociously hostile to Clinton and treats her use of a private email server as a major criminal offense, reported that “Several law-enforcement officials said they don’t expect any criminal charges to be filed as a result of the investigation, although a final review of the evidence will be made only after an expected FBI interview with Mrs. Clinton this summer.” It has been clear for more than a year that the email controversy is being driven by sections of the military-intelligence apparatus allied to the Republican Party and seeking an even harder line in US foreign policy than that pursued by the Obama-Clinton administration. A series of leaks has kept the issue before the public to undermine Clinton’s political standing and, potentially, sabotage her campaign entirely. What is remarkable about the latest revelation is that it does link Clinton directly to criminal activity, only not in the sense long alleged by her right-wing political opponents. The criminal activity is her personal participation in the campaign of drone-missile assassination, conducted by the CIA and Pentagon at the direction of President Obama, in complete violation of international law. The Wall Street Journal account indicates that State Department opposition to specific drone missile strikes was related entirely to problems of timing—a mass incineration coming on the eve of sensitive US-Pakistani talks or the visit of a top US official to Islamabad—and did not represent any objection to the program itself. The newspaper reported, “Only once or twice during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure at State did U.S. diplomats object to a planned CIA strike, according to congressional and law-enforcement officials familiar with the emails.” As for the CIA’s concerns about secrecy—now given voice by Republican officials, from congressional representatives on up to Donald Trump—the Journal account concedes that the drone missile program was widely publicized in Pakistan. “Despite being treated as top secret by the CIA, the drone program has long been in the public domain in Pakistan,” the newspaper noted. “Television stations there go live with reports of each strike, undermining U.S. efforts to foster goodwill and cooperation against militants through billions of dollars in American aid.” The language is priceless. According to this leading US newspaper, it was not the missile strikes themselves, spreading death and destruction, but the television reports about them, that were causing a political backlash in Pakistan. As for the insistence on secrecy, this had a clear political motive. The CIA and Pentagon wished to keep the missile assassination program secret, not from the Pakistani population, who could see the toll in men, women and children incinerated and maimed, but from the American people, who were not to be allowed to know what the government of the United States was doing, allegedly in their name. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2016 8:53 AM To: C. G. Estabrook ; Peace Discuss ; Karen Aram ; C. G. Estabrook ; David Green ; David Johnson ; Stuart Levy ; Karen Medina ; Szoke, Ron ; Mildred O'brien ; Peace Discuss ; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com' ; Readel, Karin ; Estabrook, Carl G ; 'Belden Fields' ; 'jmachota at shout.net' ; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List' ; 'Bryan Savage' ; Hoffman, Valerie J ; Miller, Joseph Thomas Subject: Obama's Drone Murder Report Obama’s drone order: Institutionalizing a state murder operation In the case of the presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, she signed off on them as Obama’s secretary of state. Along with Clinton’s “lawyer” Harold Killer Koh. And now the Yale Law Mafia UI College of Law has invited out Yale Law Mafia Killer Koh to Campaign here on October 28 to get his Yale Law Mafia Boss Clinton elected President ten days later and continue this Drone Murder Campaign of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Verging on Genocide against Muslims, making the Faculty of the College of Law Accessories after the Fact to Koh/Clinton Crimes from 2009 to 2013, and potential Accessories Before the Fact to Koh/Clinton Crimes from 2017 to 2021 and perhaps to 2025. MURDER INC at the College of Law. Unless we stop them! Hey! Hey! Illinois Law Say! How many kids! Did you kill today! Fab Obama’s drone order: Institutionalizing a state murder operation 2 July 2016 Over three-and-a-half months after promising “in the coming weeks” an “assessment” of the number of civilians slaughtered in illegal drone missile strikes carried out in countries “outside of areas of active hostilities,” the Obama administration on Friday released numbers that represent a fraction of those documented by various independent investigations. The report, drafted by the office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), was accompanied by an executive order reaffirming that the US president has the unquestionable right to order the state murder of anyone in any part of the world, while claiming a commitment to “promote best practices that reduce the likelihood of civilian casualties.” The words “best practices,” drawn from the dry lexicon of corporate management, recur three times in the US president’s executive order, underscoring the way in which the methods of Murder Inc. have become routinized and institutionalized within the American capitalist state. It is to further this process that the White House released its phony numbers, along with the hypocritical order feigning commitment to reducing the number of civilians killed by the Hellfire missiles fired from thousands of miles away by CIA and Pentagon operatives viewing their victims over video screens. The new policy, according to a White House release, is designed to “develop a sustainable legal and policy architecture to guide our counterterrorism activities going forward,” and to “institutionalize and enhance best practices regarding US counterterrorism operations and other US operations involving the use of force...” In other words, with barely six months left in office, Barack Obama is determined to secure a core element of his loathsome political legacy—turning the White House Oval Office into headquarters for drawing up “kill lists” and organizing “targeted killings,” i.e., political assassinations of foreign nationals and US citizens alike. The Obama White House has set into motion a drone expansion program that will increase the military’s capacity to launch assassination strikes by 50 percent, while keeping the covert CIA drone program in place. All of those who appear in a position to succeed him have endorsed drone killings. In the case of the presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, she signed off on them as Obama’s secretary of state. As for the pretense of concern for the “collateral damage” inflicted by this campaign—men, women and children who are not deliberately targeted but nonetheless blown to pieces—it is intended merely to provide a pseudo-humanitarian cover for cold-blooded murder. Even the New York Times, which has in the past defended Obama’s drone assassinations, was compelled to note that the executive order and the casualty estimate from the DNI were released on the Friday afternoon of a long holiday weekend. This is a traditional time period for releases that the government hopes will escape close public scrutiny. In this case, it is for good reason. According to the estimate provided by the DNI, the number of civilians killed “outside areas of active hostilities,” i.e., excluding the wholesale slaughter in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, between Obama’s inauguration in January 2009 and the end of 2015, amounted to a grand total of between 64 and 116. This compared in the US intelligence estimate to between 2,372 and 2,581 “combatant” deaths. This admission represents an incremental change from when the architect of the drone murder program, now CIA director, John Brennan, claimed in 2011 that over the previous year there had not been “a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities” of the remote-control killing machine. At the time, Pakistan was counting its civilian victims in the hundreds, if not thousands, including 41 tribal leaders gathered in an open air, government-approved meeting in March of that year, who were ripped to pieces by four Hellfire missiles fired from multiple US drones. Nonetheless, the numbers now provided by the DNI are absurdly low. Among the most cited sources on the subject, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has provided a conservative estimate that as many as 1,138 civilians have been killed by American drones—that is, tens times as many as are admitted by Washington. Even this figure is a serious underestimation of the real human toll of Obama’s “targeted killing” program. A study done in 2014 by the human rights group Reprieve documented that in attempting to assassinate 41 individuals deemed by the White House to be “terrorists”—a category that includes anyone resisting American occupation or opposing US policy—drone strikes killed an estimated 1,147 people. Among those reacting to Thursday’s press release was Letta Tayler, a Human Rights Watch researcher who documented through interviews with witnesses, relatives and officials the deaths of at least 57 civilians in US drone strikes in Yemen between 2009 and 2013. “I find it difficult to believe that in examining just seven attacks I happened upon well over half of the civilian deaths that the US acknowledges,” Tayler told the Washington Post . One explanation for the immense discrepancy between the US government’s figures and those of virtually all other sources is that the Pentagon and the CIA have a policy of presumption of guilt for anyone killed by a drone missile. Males between the ages of 18 and 80 are automatically deemed “combatants,” and in many cases women and children are treated the same way. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper provided a simpler—and chilling—explanation Friday for the disparity in casualty estimates: the higher totals were the result of the “deliberate spread of misinformation by some actors, including terrorist organizations.” The meaning is clear. Those questioning a global assassination program carried out in the name of a “war on terror” are themselves suspect of acting in league with terrorists and, logically, potential targets. The drone murder program—the signature policy of the presidency of Barack Obama—sums up the criminality not only of the president himself, but also of those he serves, the parasitical financial oligarchy and the vast military-intelligence apparatus. In the defense of their interests, war abroad is inevitably joined with repression at home. The Obama administration’s move to sanctify this assassination program as a permanent institution of the American state must serve as a serious warning to the working class. Bill Van Auken Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 8:47 PM To: C. G. Estabrook > Cc: Peace Discuss >; Karen Aram >; C. G. Estabrook >; David Green >; David Johnson >; Stuart Levy >; Karen Medina >; Szoke, Ron >; Mildred O'brien >; Peace Discuss >; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com' >; Readel, Karin >; Estabrook, Carl G >; 'Belden Fields' >; 'jmachota at shout.net' >; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List' >; 'Bryan Savage' >; Hoffman, Valerie J >; Miller, Joseph Thomas > Subject: RE: AWARE on the Air, June 28 As I know from long and sad experience here at the College of Law, so-called University of Illinois “whistleblower protection” is a joke and a fraud when it comes to protecting me from retaliation. So I am asking for a Volunteer to file a Complaint with the Illinois Inspector General. Fab. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 7:39 PM To: C. G. Estabrook > Cc: Peace Discuss >; Karen Aram >; C. G. Estabrook >; David Green >; David Johnson >; Stuart Levy >; Karen Medina >; Szoke, Ron >; Mildred O'brien >; Peace Discuss >; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com' >; Readel, Karin >; Estabrook, Carl G >; 'Belden Fields' >; 'jmachota at shout.net' >; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List' >; 'Bryan Savage' >; Hoffman, Valerie J >; Miller, Joseph Thomas > Subject: RE: AWARE on the Air, June 28 Examples of allegations of violations by public employees that may be investigated by the OEIG include, but are not limited to: fraud, abuse of authority, corruption, theft of state property, improper use of state time, property, or other resources for prohibited political purposes Maggie Hickey, Executive Inspector General This website is intended to provide you with information and resources related to the functions of this office. The menu above provides immediate access to our publicly disclosed investigative reports, related decisions, newsletters and other information. You may file a secure, encrypted online complaint by simply clicking on the following: online complaint link. If you have questions, you may contact us by clicking the following: online information request. Actually, I have already caught the College of Law in a prima facie violation of the Illinois Statute prohibiting the use of University Resources for electoral campaign purposes by means of the following Official Notice using the University Logo and web-site to announce Killer Koh’s October 28 Lecture here, ten days before the presidential election involving his Yale Law Mafia Boss Mrs Clinton when he is a prominent member of her presidential election campaign and her lawyer. It took University Resources to prepare, post and host this Notice on a University web-site. We know for a fact that last year the Illinois Inspector General sanctioned a professor for only ONE email message on his University Account related to an electoral campaign. Beyond this Notice, has there also been even one iota of coordination between COL/KOH and His Clinton Presidential Campaign on this October 28 lecture date? Emails, phones, faxes, preparations, reservations, invitations, etc? Between COL/KOH and the National Democratic Party? Between COL/KOH and the Champaign Democratic Party? The Illinois Inspector General has the power and the obligation to get to the bottom of this. But she has no authority to act on her own. Someone must first file a Complaint. Is there a Volunteer in the House? Fab. [https://www.law.illinois.edu/resources/images/imark-50.png]ILLINOIS | LAW INTRANET · Admissions · Faculty · Academics · Careers Services · Library · Alumni Relations · Giving · Calendar o Upcoming Featured Events o Upcoming Lectures and Conferences o Academic Calendar o Schedule an Event Top of Form Harold Koh (Yale) to deliver the 2016 Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law Friday, October 28, 2016 Max L. Rowe Auditorium, Law Building 12:00 PM–1:00 PM The University of Illinois College of Law presents the 2016 Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law, featuring Harold Koh. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will be held in the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Pavilion following the lecture. Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Professor Koh is one of the country’s leading experts in public and private international law, national security law, and human rights. Bottom of Form College of Law 504 East Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Illinois 61820 Phone (217) 333-0931 Fax (217) 244-1478 © 2016 University of Illinois Quick Links · About · ABA Required Disclosures · Administrative Directory · Calendar · For the Media · Illini Union Bookstore · Visiting the College · Webmail · Give Now Illinois Law Social Media · Twitter · Facebook · LinkedIn · YouTube · RSS · Sina Weibo Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:53 PM To: C. G. Estabrook > Cc: Peace Discuss >; Karen Aram >; C. G. Estabrook >; David Green >; David Johnson >; Stuart Levy >; Karen Medina >; Szoke, Ron >; Mildred O'brien >; Peace Discuss >; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com' >; Readel, Karin >; Estabrook, Carl G >; 'Belden Fields' >; 'jmachota at shout.net' >; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List' >; 'Bryan Savage' >; Hoffman, Valerie J >; Miller, Joseph Thomas > Subject: RE: AWARE on the Air, June 28 Ok. Thanks Carl.Thanks for having me on. Thanks for the support. And I hope everyone can mobilize to terminate the Killer Koh Lecture here at the College of Law on October 28. Fab Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: C. G. Estabrook [mailto:carl at newsfromneptune.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:48 PM To: Boyle, Francis A > Cc: Peace Discuss > Subject: AWARE on the Air, June 28 Francis— The members of AWARE appreciate your participation in tonight’s program (Episode #369). The program is archived and may be viewed at >. We’d be delighted to have you join us again whenever your schedule allows. Regards, Carl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1625 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From fboyle at illinois.edu Sat Jul 2 14:32:48 2016 From: fboyle at illinois.edu (Boyle, Francis A) Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 14:32:48 +0000 Subject: [Peace] MURDER INC Killer Koh Invited to Campaign for MURDER INC Clinton by MURDER INC College of Law On October 28, 2016! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The University of Illinois College of Consiglieres. fab Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2016 9:28 AM To: C. G. Estabrook ; Peace Discuss ; Karen Aram ; C. G. Estabrook ; David Green ; David Johnson ; Stuart Levy ; Karen Medina ; Szoke, Ron ; Mildred O'brien ; Peace Discuss ; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com' ; Readel, Karin ; Estabrook, Carl G ; 'Belden Fields' ; 'jmachota at shout.net' ; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List' ; 'Bryan Savage' ; Hoffman, Valerie J ; Miller, Joseph Thomas Subject: MURDER INC Killer Koh Invited to Campaign for MURDER INC Clinton by MURDER INC College of Law On October 28, 2016! Hillary Clinton signed off on drone assassinations, emails reveal {along with her Consigliere Harold Killer Koh} What is remarkable about the latest revelation is that it does link Clinton {and her Consigliere Killer Koh} directly to criminal activity, only not in the sense long alleged by her right-wing political opponents. The criminal activity is her personal participation in the campaign of drone-missile assassination, conducted by the CIA and Pentagon at the direction of President Obama, in complete violation of international law. And the Yale Law Mafia UI College of Law has already held out publicly that Yale Law Mafia Consigliere Killer Koh is an “expert” on international law and human rights. In other words, the Yale Law Mafia UI College of Law is endorsing, ratifying, condoning, whitewashing, sanitizing, and approving all the international and domestic crimes that Yale Law Mafia Consigliere Killer Koh and his Yale Law Mafia Boss Clinton committed from 2009-2013, thus rendering the Yale Law Mafia Faculty of the College of Law Accessories After The Fact to them all. MURDER INC at the College of Law. And the Yale Law Mafia Faculty of the College of Law will become Accessories Before The Fact to all the international and domestic crimes that Yale Law Mafia Clinton/Koh will commit from 2017 to 2021 and perhaps 2025. Unless we stop them! Hey! Hey! Illinois Law Say! How many kids! Did you kill today! Fab By Patrick Martin 11 June 2016 In his online endorsement of Hillary Clinton to succeed him in the White House, President Obama declared that she was more qualified than any previous candidate for the presidency. A report Friday in the Wall Street Journal indicates that these “qualifications” include personal participation in approving drone-missile assassinations. Clinton’s role in the chain of command leading to the incineration of thousands of people in Pakistan, most of them innocent civilians, is one of the secrets concealed in the long-running investigation of her use of a private email server while Secretary of State in the Obama administration. The Wall Street Journal article reports that in 2011 and 2012, after a series of internal disputes between the CIA and the State Department over how drone missile strikes in Pakistan were complicating US diplomatic relations with the government in Islamabad, the State Department was given the right to veto missile strikes if their timing was considered especially provocative to the Pakistani government. The US Ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, or another official at the embassy, would be informed of drone strikes in advance by the CIA, and would then consult with the State Department, going up the line all the way to Secretary of State Clinton, about whether to formally “concur” or “non-concur” in the action. According to the Journal, such communications would normally pass through the internal State Department communications system, with Clinton given oral briefing and responding in the same way. However, there were some instances, usually when officials were on vacation or during holiday periods, or when the high-security system was too cumbersome and an immediate reply was needed, when an aide would send Clinton an email about an impending strike, for her response. The Journal wrote: “The vaguely worded messages didn’t mention the ‘CIA,’ ‘drones’ or details about the militant targets, officials said.” These emails are apparently among those now considered top-secret by the intelligence agencies, although they were not so classified by the State Department at the time. As the Journal noted, “The CIA drone campaign, though widely reported in Pakistan, is treated as secret by the U.S. government. Under strict U.S. classification rules, U.S. officials have been barred from discussing strikes publicly and even privately outside of secure communications systems.” Significantly, the Journal, whose editorial page is ferociously hostile to Clinton and treats her use of a private email server as a major criminal offense, reported that “Several law-enforcement officials said they don’t expect any criminal charges to be filed as a result of the investigation, although a final review of the evidence will be made only after an expected FBI interview with Mrs. Clinton this summer.” It has been clear for more than a year that the email controversy is being driven by sections of the military-intelligence apparatus allied to the Republican Party and seeking an even harder line in US foreign policy than that pursued by the Obama-Clinton administration. A series of leaks has kept the issue before the public to undermine Clinton’s political standing and, potentially, sabotage her campaign entirely. What is remarkable about the latest revelation is that it does link Clinton directly to criminal activity, only not in the sense long alleged by her right-wing political opponents. The criminal activity is her personal participation in the campaign of drone-missile assassination, conducted by the CIA and Pentagon at the direction of President Obama, in complete violation of international law. The Wall Street Journal account indicates that State Department opposition to specific drone missile strikes was related entirely to problems of timing—a mass incineration coming on the eve of sensitive US-Pakistani talks or the visit of a top US official to Islamabad—and did not represent any objection to the program itself. The newspaper reported, “Only once or twice during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure at State did U.S. diplomats object to a planned CIA strike, according to congressional and law-enforcement officials familiar with the emails.” As for the CIA’s concerns about secrecy—now given voice by Republican officials, from congressional representatives on up to Donald Trump—the Journal account concedes that the drone missile program was widely publicized in Pakistan. “Despite being treated as top secret by the CIA, the drone program has long been in the public domain in Pakistan,” the newspaper noted. “Television stations there go live with reports of each strike, undermining U.S. efforts to foster goodwill and cooperation against militants through billions of dollars in American aid.” The language is priceless. According to this leading US newspaper, it was not the missile strikes themselves, spreading death and destruction, but the television reports about them, that were causing a political backlash in Pakistan. As for the insistence on secrecy, this had a clear political motive. The CIA and Pentagon wished to keep the missile assassination program secret, not from the Pakistani population, who could see the toll in men, women and children incinerated and maimed, but from the American people, who were not to be allowed to know what the government of the United States was doing, allegedly in their name. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2016 8:53 AM To: C. G. Estabrook >; Peace Discuss >; Karen Aram >; C. G. Estabrook >; David Green >; David Johnson >; Stuart Levy >; Karen Medina >; Szoke, Ron >; Mildred O'brien >; Peace Discuss >; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com' >; Readel, Karin >; Estabrook, Carl G >; 'Belden Fields' >; 'jmachota at shout.net' >; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List' >; 'Bryan Savage' >; Hoffman, Valerie J >; Miller, Joseph Thomas > Subject: Obama's Drone Murder Report Obama’s drone order: Institutionalizing a state murder operation In the case of the presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, she signed off on them as Obama’s secretary of state. Along with Clinton’s “lawyer” Harold Killer Koh. And now the Yale Law Mafia UI College of Law has invited out Yale Law Mafia Killer Koh to Campaign here on October 28 to get his Yale Law Mafia Boss Clinton elected President ten days later and continue this Drone Murder Campaign of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Verging on Genocide against Muslims, making the Faculty of the College of Law Accessories after the Fact to Koh/Clinton Crimes from 2009 to 2013, and potential Accessories Before the Fact to Koh/Clinton Crimes from 2017 to 2021 and perhaps to 2025. MURDER INC at the College of Law. Unless we stop them! Hey! Hey! Illinois Law Say! How many kids! Did you kill today! Fab Obama’s drone order: Institutionalizing a state murder operation 2 July 2016 Over three-and-a-half months after promising “in the coming weeks” an “assessment” of the number of civilians slaughtered in illegal drone missile strikes carried out in countries “outside of areas of active hostilities,” the Obama administration on Friday released numbers that represent a fraction of those documented by various independent investigations. The report, drafted by the office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), was accompanied by an executive order reaffirming that the US president has the unquestionable right to order the state murder of anyone in any part of the world, while claiming a commitment to “promote best practices that reduce the likelihood of civilian casualties.” The words “best practices,” drawn from the dry lexicon of corporate management, recur three times in the US president’s executive order, underscoring the way in which the methods of Murder Inc. have become routinized and institutionalized within the American capitalist state. It is to further this process that the White House released its phony numbers, along with the hypocritical order feigning commitment to reducing the number of civilians killed by the Hellfire missiles fired from thousands of miles away by CIA and Pentagon operatives viewing their victims over video screens. The new policy, according to a White House release, is designed to “develop a sustainable legal and policy architecture to guide our counterterrorism activities going forward,” and to “institutionalize and enhance best practices regarding US counterterrorism operations and other US operations involving the use of force...” In other words, with barely six months left in office, Barack Obama is determined to secure a core element of his loathsome political legacy—turning the White House Oval Office into headquarters for drawing up “kill lists” and organizing “targeted killings,” i.e., political assassinations of foreign nationals and US citizens alike. The Obama White House has set into motion a drone expansion program that will increase the military’s capacity to launch assassination strikes by 50 percent, while keeping the covert CIA drone program in place. All of those who appear in a position to succeed him have endorsed drone killings. In the case of the presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, she signed off on them as Obama’s secretary of state. As for the pretense of concern for the “collateral damage” inflicted by this campaign—men, women and children who are not deliberately targeted but nonetheless blown to pieces—it is intended merely to provide a pseudo-humanitarian cover for cold-blooded murder. Even the New York Times, which has in the past defended Obama’s drone assassinations, was compelled to note that the executive order and the casualty estimate from the DNI were released on the Friday afternoon of a long holiday weekend. This is a traditional time period for releases that the government hopes will escape close public scrutiny. In this case, it is for good reason. According to the estimate provided by the DNI, the number of civilians killed “outside areas of active hostilities,” i.e., excluding the wholesale slaughter in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, between Obama’s inauguration in January 2009 and the end of 2015, amounted to a grand total of between 64 and 116. This compared in the US intelligence estimate to between 2,372 and 2,581 “combatant” deaths. This admission represents an incremental change from when the architect of the drone murder program, now CIA director, John Brennan, claimed in 2011 that over the previous year there had not been “a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities” of the remote-control killing machine. At the time, Pakistan was counting its civilian victims in the hundreds, if not thousands, including 41 tribal leaders gathered in an open air, government-approved meeting in March of that year, who were ripped to pieces by four Hellfire missiles fired from multiple US drones. Nonetheless, the numbers now provided by the DNI are absurdly low. Among the most cited sources on the subject, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has provided a conservative estimate that as many as 1,138 civilians have been killed by American drones—that is, tens times as many as are admitted by Washington. Even this figure is a serious underestimation of the real human toll of Obama’s “targeted killing” program. A study done in 2014 by the human rights group Reprieve documented that in attempting to assassinate 41 individuals deemed by the White House to be “terrorists”—a category that includes anyone resisting American occupation or opposing US policy—drone strikes killed an estimated 1,147 people. Among those reacting to Thursday’s press release was Letta Tayler, a Human Rights Watch researcher who documented through interviews with witnesses, relatives and officials the deaths of at least 57 civilians in US drone strikes in Yemen between 2009 and 2013. “I find it difficult to believe that in examining just seven attacks I happened upon well over half of the civilian deaths that the US acknowledges,” Tayler told the Washington Post . One explanation for the immense discrepancy between the US government’s figures and those of virtually all other sources is that the Pentagon and the CIA have a policy of presumption of guilt for anyone killed by a drone missile. Males between the ages of 18 and 80 are automatically deemed “combatants,” and in many cases women and children are treated the same way. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper provided a simpler—and chilling—explanation Friday for the disparity in casualty estimates: the higher totals were the result of the “deliberate spread of misinformation by some actors, including terrorist organizations.” The meaning is clear. Those questioning a global assassination program carried out in the name of a “war on terror” are themselves suspect of acting in league with terrorists and, logically, potential targets. The drone murder program—the signature policy of the presidency of Barack Obama—sums up the criminality not only of the president himself, but also of those he serves, the parasitical financial oligarchy and the vast military-intelligence apparatus. In the defense of their interests, war abroad is inevitably joined with repression at home. The Obama administration’s move to sanctify this assassination program as a permanent institution of the American state must serve as a serious warning to the working class. Bill Van Auken Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 8:47 PM To: C. G. Estabrook > Cc: Peace Discuss >; Karen Aram >; C. G. Estabrook >; David Green >; David Johnson >; Stuart Levy >; Karen Medina >; Szoke, Ron >; Mildred O'brien >; Peace Discuss >; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com' >; Readel, Karin >; Estabrook, Carl G >; 'Belden Fields' >; 'jmachota at shout.net' >; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List' >; 'Bryan Savage' >; Hoffman, Valerie J >; Miller, Joseph Thomas > Subject: RE: AWARE on the Air, June 28 As I know from long and sad experience here at the College of Law, so-called University of Illinois “whistleblower protection” is a joke and a fraud when it comes to protecting me from retaliation. So I am asking for a Volunteer to file a Complaint with the Illinois Inspector General. Fab. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 7:39 PM To: C. G. Estabrook > Cc: Peace Discuss >; Karen Aram >; C. G. Estabrook >; David Green >; David Johnson >; Stuart Levy >; Karen Medina >; Szoke, Ron >; Mildred O'brien >; Peace Discuss >; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com' >; Readel, Karin >; Estabrook, Carl G >; 'Belden Fields' >; 'jmachota at shout.net' >; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List' >; 'Bryan Savage' >; Hoffman, Valerie J >; Miller, Joseph Thomas > Subject: RE: AWARE on the Air, June 28 Examples of allegations of violations by public employees that may be investigated by the OEIG include, but are not limited to: fraud, abuse of authority, corruption, theft of state property, improper use of state time, property, or other resources for prohibited political purposes Maggie Hickey, Executive Inspector General This website is intended to provide you with information and resources related to the functions of this office. The menu above provides immediate access to our publicly disclosed investigative reports, related decisions, newsletters and other information. You may file a secure, encrypted online complaint by simply clicking on the following: online complaint link. If you have questions, you may contact us by clicking the following: online information request. Actually, I have already caught the College of Law in a prima facie violation of the Illinois Statute prohibiting the use of University Resources for electoral campaign purposes by means of the following Official Notice using the University Logo and web-site to announce Killer Koh’s October 28 Lecture here, ten days before the presidential election involving his Yale Law Mafia Boss Mrs Clinton when he is a prominent member of her presidential election campaign and her lawyer. It took University Resources to prepare, post and host this Notice on a University web-site. We know for a fact that last year the Illinois Inspector General sanctioned a professor for only ONE email message on his University Account related to an electoral campaign. Beyond this Notice, has there also been even one iota of coordination between COL/KOH and His Clinton Presidential Campaign on this October 28 lecture date? Emails, phones, faxes, preparations, reservations, invitations, etc? Between COL/KOH and the National Democratic Party? Between COL/KOH and the Champaign Democratic Party? The Illinois Inspector General has the power and the obligation to get to the bottom of this. But she has no authority to act on her own. Someone must first file a Complaint. Is there a Volunteer in the House? Fab. [https://www.law.illinois.edu/resources/images/imark-50.png]ILLINOIS | LAW INTRANET · Admissions · Faculty · Academics · Careers Services · Library · Alumni Relations · Giving · Calendar o Upcoming Featured Events o Upcoming Lectures and Conferences o Academic Calendar o Schedule an Event Top of Form Harold Koh (Yale) to deliver the 2016 Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law Friday, October 28, 2016 Max L. Rowe Auditorium, Law Building 12:00 PM–1:00 PM The University of Illinois College of Law presents the 2016 Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law, featuring Harold Koh. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will be held in the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Pavilion following the lecture. Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Professor Koh is one of the country’s leading experts in public and private international law, national security law, and human rights. Bottom of Form College of Law 504 East Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Illinois 61820 Phone (217) 333-0931 Fax (217) 244-1478 © 2016 University of Illinois Quick Links · About · ABA Required Disclosures · Administrative Directory · Calendar · For the Media · Illini Union Bookstore · Visiting the College · Webmail · Give Now Illinois Law Social Media · Twitter · Facebook · LinkedIn · YouTube · RSS · Sina Weibo Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:53 PM To: C. G. Estabrook > Cc: Peace Discuss >; Karen Aram >; C. G. Estabrook >; David Green >; David Johnson >; Stuart Levy >; Karen Medina >; Szoke, Ron >; Mildred O'brien >; Peace Discuss >; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com' >; Readel, Karin >; Estabrook, Carl G >; 'Belden Fields' >; 'jmachota at shout.net' >; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List' >; 'Bryan Savage' >; Hoffman, Valerie J >; Miller, Joseph Thomas > Subject: RE: AWARE on the Air, June 28 Ok. Thanks Carl.Thanks for having me on. Thanks for the support. And I hope everyone can mobilize to terminate the Killer Koh Lecture here at the College of Law on October 28. Fab Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: C. G. Estabrook [mailto:carl at newsfromneptune.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:48 PM To: Boyle, Francis A > Cc: Peace Discuss > Subject: AWARE on the Air, June 28 Francis— The members of AWARE appreciate your participation in tonight’s program (Episode #369). The program is archived and may be viewed at >. We’d be delighted to have you join us again whenever your schedule allows. Regards, Carl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1625 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Jul 2 14:38:22 2016 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 14:38:22 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Obama's Drone Murder Report In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Stopping Killer Koh from speaking is one thing. I prefer to stop him and Hillary from killing people. ________________________________ From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Saturday, July 2, 2016 8:53:05 AM To: C. G. Estabrook; Peace Discuss; Karen Aram; C. G. Estabrook; David Green; David Johnson; Stuart Levy; Karen Medina; Szoke, Ron; Mildred O'brien; Peace Discuss; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com'; Readel, Karin; Estabrook, Carl G; 'Belden Fields'; 'jmachota at shout.net'; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List'; 'Bryan Savage'; Hoffman, Valerie J; Miller, Joseph Thomas Subject: Obama's Drone Murder Report Obama’s drone order: Institutionalizing a state murder operation In the case of the presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, she signed off on them as Obama’s secretary of state. Along with Clinton’s “lawyer” Harold Killer Koh. And now the Yale Law Mafia UI College of Law has invited out Yale Law Mafia Killer Koh to Campaign here on October 28 to get his Yale Law Mafia Boss Clinton elected President ten days later and continue this Drone Murder Campaign of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Verging on Genocide against Muslims, making the Faculty of the College of Law Accessories after the Fact to Koh/Clinton Crimes from 2009 to 2013, and potential Accessories Before the Fact to Koh/Clinton Crimes from 2017 to 2021 and perhaps to 2025. MURDER INC at the College of Law. Unless we stop them! Hey! Hey! Illinois Law Say! How many kids! Did you kill today! Fab Obama’s drone order: Institutionalizing a state murder operation 2 July 2016 Over three-and-a-half months after promising “in the coming weeks” an “assessment” of the number of civilians slaughtered in illegal drone missile strikes carried out in countries “outside of areas of active hostilities,” the Obama administration on Friday released numbers that represent a fraction of those documented by various independent investigations. The report, drafted by the office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), was accompanied by an executive order reaffirming that the US president has the unquestionable right to order the state murder of anyone in any part of the world, while claiming a commitment to “promote best practices that reduce the likelihood of civilian casualties.” The words “best practices,” drawn from the dry lexicon of corporate management, recur three times in the US president’s executive order, underscoring the way in which the methods of Murder Inc. have become routinized and institutionalized within the American capitalist state. It is to further this process that the White House released its phony numbers, along with the hypocritical order feigning commitment to reducing the number of civilians killed by the Hellfire missiles fired from thousands of miles away by CIA and Pentagon operatives viewing their victims over video screens. The new policy, according to a White House release, is designed to “develop a sustainable legal and policy architecture to guide our counterterrorism activities going forward,” and to “institutionalize and enhance best practices regarding US counterterrorism operations and other US operations involving the use of force...” In other words, with barely six months left in office, Barack Obama is determined to secure a core element of his loathsome political legacy—turning the White House Oval Office into headquarters for drawing up “kill lists” and organizing “targeted killings,” i.e., political assassinations of foreign nationals and US citizens alike. The Obama White House has set into motion a drone expansion program that will increase the military’s capacity to launch assassination strikes by 50 percent, while keeping the covert CIA drone program in place. All of those who appear in a position to succeed him have endorsed drone killings. In the case of the presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, she signed off on them as Obama’s secretary of state. As for the pretense of concern for the “collateral damage” inflicted by this campaign—men, women and children who are not deliberately targeted but nonetheless blown to pieces—it is intended merely to provide a pseudo-humanitarian cover for cold-blooded murder. Even the New York Times, which has in the past defended Obama’s drone assassinations, was compelled to note that the executive order and the casualty estimate from the DNI were released on the Friday afternoon of a long holiday weekend. This is a traditional time period for releases that the government hopes will escape close public scrutiny. In this case, it is for good reason. According to the estimate provided by the DNI, the number of civilians killed “outside areas of active hostilities,” i.e., excluding the wholesale slaughter in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, between Obama’s inauguration in January 2009 and the end of 2015, amounted to a grand total of between 64 and 116. This compared in the US intelligence estimate to between 2,372 and 2,581 “combatant” deaths. This admission represents an incremental change from when the architect of the drone murder program, now CIA director, John Brennan, claimed in 2011 that over the previous year there had not been “a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities” of the remote-control killing machine. At the time, Pakistan was counting its civilian victims in the hundreds, if not thousands, including 41 tribal leaders gathered in an open air, government-approved meeting in March of that year, who were ripped to pieces by four Hellfire missiles fired from multiple US drones. Nonetheless, the numbers now provided by the DNI are absurdly low. Among the most cited sources on the subject, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has provided a conservative estimate that as many as 1,138 civilians have been killed by American drones—that is, tens times as many as are admitted by Washington. Even this figure is a serious underestimation of the real human toll of Obama’s “targeted killing” program. A study done in 2014 by the human rights group Reprieve documented that in attempting to assassinate 41 individuals deemed by the White House to be “terrorists”—a category that includes anyone resisting American occupation or opposing US policy—drone strikes killed an estimated 1,147 people. Among those reacting to Thursday’s press release was Letta Tayler, a Human Rights Watch researcher who documented through interviews with witnesses, relatives and officials the deaths of at least 57 civilians in US drone strikes in Yemen between 2009 and 2013. “I find it difficult to believe that in examining just seven attacks I happened upon well over half of the civilian deaths that the US acknowledges,” Tayler told the Washington Post . One explanation for the immense discrepancy between the US government’s figures and those of virtually all other sources is that the Pentagon and the CIA have a policy of presumption of guilt for anyone killed by a drone missile. Males between the ages of 18 and 80 are automatically deemed “combatants,” and in many cases women and children are treated the same way. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper provided a simpler—and chilling—explanation Friday for the disparity in casualty estimates: the higher totals were the result of the “deliberate spread of misinformation by some actors, including terrorist organizations.” The meaning is clear. Those questioning a global assassination program carried out in the name of a “war on terror” are themselves suspect of acting in league with terrorists and, logically, potential targets. The drone murder program—the signature policy of the presidency of Barack Obama—sums up the criminality not only of the president himself, but also of those he serves, the parasitical financial oligarchy and the vast military-intelligence apparatus. In the defense of their interests, war abroad is inevitably joined with repression at home. The Obama administration’s move to sanctify this assassination program as a permanent institution of the American state must serve as a serious warning to the working class. 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