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Chainsaw-Wielding Feds Trampling on your Rights?

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    Judge Nap explores the current drone wars, the ACLU’s fight for more transparency and what it’s like to have chainsaw wielding feds knock your doo...

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Now a few items from our freedom files and Fitch -- Massachusetts a citywide drug and weapons raid.

Included the Federal Bureau of Investigation chains so lying to the front door -- Judy Sanchez is apartment.

You probably know where this is going already the FBI agents chain sawed through the wrong door of the wrong.

Ms.

Sanchez claims that after ripping open her door with a chainsaw.

FBI agents ordered her to lie down at a pool for -- -- on the floor.

At gunpoint for at least thirty minutes of what battle are gonna get up or put -- clothes on.

-- as a three year old daughter were screaming for our in another -- When the FBI agents realize they were in the wrong house ms.

Sanchez says looks on their faces.

Was priceless and FBI agent return later in the day and -- and apologize for the mistake saying the FBI would pay for repairs to the door.

Essentially said they felt like -- smack in the face of our own government.

And she's right.

It's smack in the face everytime your rights are trampled saying you're sorry doesn't really change the facts doesn't the constitution was written.

To prevent just such a smack in the face.

The government has so many secrets it can't keep track.

This week during an online town hall President Obama talked about the Covert drone program.

Forcing the White House to go -- damage control less than 24 hours later.

At a daily briefing the next day white house Press Secretary Jay Carney said nothing the president said about drones could be a security violation because quote.

He's the commander in chief of the armed forces the United States what kind of an answer is -- -- But request for more information about the supposedly Covert drone program.

Which we report on here at freedom watch regularly.

Are met with government claims that the program is classified.

-- -- The American Civil Liberties Union which has regularly sued for more information on the government's drone war hopes this latest disclosure by the president himself.

Can finally put that arguments arrest the ACLU's deputy legal director Jim Neal -- commented quote.

It becomes more and more absurd to say that this program is a Covert program a secret program.

There's nobody left in the United States -- in Pakistan or Yemen who doesn't know about this.

Perhaps the most infamous target of America's kind of sort of but not really secret drone war is the United States citizen Anwar -- -- -- He was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in September along with a sixteen year old son.

Because the government deemed him to be a terrorist despite an alleged operational role in al-Qaeda.

The government has never produced any public evidence supporting its claim against him.

-- -- he was never indicted or charged with a crime.

Even though the United States has indicted prosecuted and sentenced thousands of terrorists successfully.

Now the ACLU has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

Demanding to know the legal justification.

For the president's kill list how US citizens are placed on this list.

And how mr.

-- Iraqis name was added.

The government killed -- -- locking and his teenage son without due process in your name and in spite of the constitution.

In a society that respects the rule of law the government is not permitted to kill -- once the ACLU's lawsuit will help determine.

Whether we've lost the rule of law altogether in this country.

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