Targeting Killings Document Bid Rejected by U.S. Judge

Documents concerning the U.S. government’s so-called targeted killings of alleged terrorists will remain secret under a federal judge’s ruling denying a request by the American Civil Liberties and two journalists.

U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in New York today turned aside virtually the entire document request from the ACLU and two New York Times journalists. In rejecting the ACLU’s “overbroad” request under the Freedom of Information Act and a “narrower” bid by the journalists, she said the requests nonetheless “implicate serious issues about the limits on the power of the executive branch.”