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#1 Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans
02-05-2013, 12:59 AM
By Michael Isikoff
National Investigative Correspondent, NBC News
A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be “senior operational leaders” of al-Qaida or “an associated force” -- even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S.
The 16-page memo, a copy of which was obtained by NBC News, provides new details about the legal reasoning behind one of the Obama administration’s most secretive and controversial polices: its dramatically increased use of drone strikes against al-Qaida suspects, including those aimed at American citizens, such as the September 2011 strike in Yemen that killed alleged al-Qaida operatives Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. Both were U.S. citizens who had never been indicted by the U.S. government nor charged with any crimes.
The secrecy surrounding such strikes is fast emerging as a central issue in this week’s hearing of White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, a key architect of the drone campaign, to be CIA director. Brennan was the first administration official to publicly acknowledge drone strikes in a speech last year, calling them “consistent with the inherent right of self-defense.” In a separate talk at the Northwestern University Law School in March, Attorney General Eric Holder specifically endorsed the constitutionality of targeted killings of Americans, saying they could be justified if government officials determine the target poses “an imminent threat of violent attack.”
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Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
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#2 Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans
02-05-2013, 04:22 PM
The creep is slow. Like boiling a frog.
"The efforts of the government alone will never be enough. In the end the people must choose and the people must help themselves" ~ JFK; from his famous inauguration speech (What Democrats sounded like before today's neo-Liberals hijacked that party)
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#3 Re: Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans
02-06-2013, 10:26 AM
The Constitutional rationale is simple, but nobody in either party will address the fact that those American citizens actively fighting for al Qaeda are levying war against the United States and that we have the duty to defend ourselves. Declared wars are a lot easier to fight because there's no ambiguity about who the enemy is.
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Sic Hacer Pace, Para Bellum.
Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people!
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02-08-2013, 07:46 PM
Splash some water on a guys face? Oh noooooeeeeessssss we can't do that.
Kill him? Sure, why not.
Barry makes Bush look like Mother Teresa. Kill Baby, Kill should be his new tagline.Be Not Afraid.
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#5 Re: Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans
02-08-2013, 10:08 PM
--Odysseus
Sic Hacer Pace, Para Bellum.
Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people!
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02-08-2013, 10:20 PM
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
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02-09-2013, 12:18 AM
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