Lynzy Billing on Afghanistan's Zero Unit Night Raids
The Lawfare Podcast
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Do These Night Raids Fall Under the Lehi Law?
Much of what you're describing here is not illegal under US law but rather may fall into a legal gray area or slip through a loophole. The so-called lehi law prohibits the US military from providing training and equipment to foreign security forces that commit human rights abuses, but it doesn't cover US intelligence agencies. I reached out to senator patric lehi who the law was named after to ask him why these units could kind of circumvent or kind of fell outside of this law. He agreed that there needed to be an amendment to the law just as a matter of policy that these overseas military forces that work with any u.s. government agencies should really fall under the lehi
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