Shaun Waterman | The Washington Times
A Pakistani lawyer who is suing the CIA to stop its campaign of lethal drone attacks against top terrorists there has been granted a visa to enter the United States to publicize his case.
The decision to admit Mirza Shahzad Akbar may prove controversial.
One of his clients in the lawsuit, who says his relatives were civilian casualties of a drone strike, deliberately outed the CIA station chief in Islamabad in December 2010. The chief had to be withdrawn hurriedly.
“I am glad that better sense prevailed and the State Department is finally letting me into the country,” Mr. Akbar said in a statement Tuesday.
He will be a keynote speaker at a conference this weekend in Washington organized by legal critics of the CIA drone strike program and feminist antiwar group Code Pink.
