Democrats urge Biden to overhaul drone strike policy
Fifty Democrats in the House and Senate penned a letter urging President Joe Biden to overhaul US policy for conducting drone and other counterterrorism strikes to bring it in line with international law.
The letter, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and signed by a handful of leading progressive Democrats.
“As many as 48,000 civilians across seven countries have been reportedly killed by US strikes over the past two decades,” including 2,200 civilians and 450 children in US drone strikes, the letter read.
Lawmakers who signed on urged the Biden administration to live up to its pledge to fulfill a human rights-based foreign policy by reforming counterterror policies.