"That record, and Mr. Awlaki's calls for more attacks, presented Mr. Obama with an urgent question: Could he order the targeted killing of an American citizen, in a country with which the United States was not at war, in secret and without the benefit of a trial?
The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel prepared a lengthy memo justifying that extraordinary step, asserting that while the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of due process applied, it could be satisfied by internal deliberations in the executive branch.
Mr. Obama gave his approval, and Mr. Awlaki was killed in September 2011, along with a fellow propagandist, Samir Khan, an American citizen who was not on the target list but was traveling with him."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html
conslie...1) I'm not a Conservative. I'm a United States citizen that is sad to see our last two Presidents shred our Constitution. 2) Awlaki and his 16 year old son were both American citizens and were both murdered.
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/the_killing_of_awlakis_16_year_old_son/
Barack O'Romney does not care about our Constitution
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/23/barack_oromney
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/obama_the_warrior/singleton/
Every year that these assaults on core liberties are entrenched and expanded further -- the Firth Amendment guarantee of due process "can be satisfied by internal deliberations in the executive branch" - the more normalized they become, the more invulnerable to challenge they are, the more unlikely it is that they will ever be reversed. In 2006, Al Gore gave a speech on the Bush/Cheney assault on the Constitution and asked: "If the president has the inherent authority to eavesdrop on American citizens without a warrant, imprison American citizens on his own declaration, kidnap and torture, then what can't he do?" What prompted Gore's denunciation was mere eavesdropping and detention without judicial review. That's no longer controversial. Now we have this question: if the U.S. President can openly declare the power to order even the nation's own citizens executed by the CIA in total secrecy, without charges or a whiff of transparency or oversight, what can't he do?
http://www.salon.com
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/30/how_extremism_is_normalized/
The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel prepared a lengthy memo justifying that extraordinary step, asserting that while the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of due process applied, it could be satisfied by internal deliberations in the executive branch.
Mr. Obama gave his approval, and Mr. Awlaki was killed in September 2011, along with a fellow propagandist, Samir Khan, an American citizen who was not on the target list but was traveling with him."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html
conslie...1) I'm not a Conservative. I'm a United States citizen that is sad to see our last two Presidents shred our Constitution. 2) Awlaki and his 16 year old son were both American citizens and were both murdered.
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/the_killing_of_awlakis_16_year_old_son/
Barack O'Romney does not care about our Constitution
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/23/barack_oromney
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/obama_the_warrior/singleton/
Every year that these assaults on core liberties are entrenched and expanded further -- the Firth Amendment guarantee of due process "can be satisfied by internal deliberations in the executive branch" - the more normalized they become, the more invulnerable to challenge they are, the more unlikely it is that they will ever be reversed. In 2006, Al Gore gave a speech on the Bush/Cheney assault on the Constitution and asked: "If the president has the inherent authority to eavesdrop on American citizens without a warrant, imprison American citizens on his own declaration, kidnap and torture, then what can't he do?" What prompted Gore's denunciation was mere eavesdropping and detention without judicial review. That's no longer controversial. Now we have this question: if the U.S. President can openly declare the power to order even the nation's own citizens executed by the CIA in total secrecy, without charges or a whiff of transparency or oversight, what can't he do?
http://www.salon.com
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/30/how_extremism_is_normalized/