The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality
Glenn Greenwald - Sep 30, 2011
It was first reported in January of last year that the Obama administration had compiled a hit list of American citizens whom the President had ordered assassinated without any due process, and one of those Americans was Anwar al-Awlaki. No effort was made to indict him for any crimes (despite a report last October that the Obama administration was “considering” indicting him). Despite substantial doubt among Yemen experts about whether he even had any operational role in Al Qaeda, no evidence (as opposed to unverified government accusations) was presented of his guilt. When Awlaki’s father sought a court order barring Obama from killing his son, the DOJ argued, among other things, that such decisions were “state secrets” and thus beyond the scrutiny of the courts. He was simply ordered killed by the President: his judge, jury and executioner. When Awlaki’s inclusion on President Obama’s hit list was confirmed, The New York Times noted that “it is extremely rare, if not unprecedented, for an American to be approved for targeted killing.
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October 5th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
“WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE.” This is nothing new. The concept has been around for hundreds of years. Is it morally or legally right? Moot question. Them that has the gold makes the rules.
Strictly speaking, I doubt the constitution allows the POTUS to request the summary death of a vaild U.S. citizen, but who’s going to stop him? Yeah, you and what army?