And still has a military-run black site for illegal detainment and torture. And not only that, they refuse international law and to subject their war criminals to prosecution. Strike that, they have a law allowing themselves to invade anyone investigating their war criminals, have sanctioned such investigators, and actively pardon war criminals.

The US has some history of politically-motivated suppression of journalists (Assange), but has yet to advance to murdering them.

> not better than Saudi Arabia

> Obama-era drone killings

The drone killings are not good, but in no way equivalent to the ills of SA. The murder of a journalist isn't the same as the murder of a wanted violent criminal.

Yeah, because those drones only kill 'violent criminals', not also civilians. Also, these 'violent criminals' have a right for a fair process, otherwise it's just murder - which it is.

I'm pretty sure I described both cases as murder.

In any case: when has the US targeted civilians? And where does the "right to X" come from?

Trump continued (and even increased) the drone killings, but removed the reporting requirements. Calling it the "Obama-era drone killings" ignores the unprecedented amount of killings under the previous administration.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/22/obama-drones-trump-kill...

I call it Obama-era because the guy got a Nobel Peace Prize while doing that. I have a even lower opinion of Trump, but at least he was widely despised by the international community, unlike the former

Furthermore. The Obama admin added transparency and accountability measures while the Trump admin ditched them.

Hence the reason they are still the Obama drone strikes. Out of sight out of mind.

I'm sure it will be great solace to the families of those murdered by America that the Americans are proud to talk about it again