Execution, Obama stylePosted By david elosser |
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/world/14awlaki.html?hp
The Obama administration’s decision to authorize the killing by the Central Intelligence Agency of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes, a mainstay of the campaign against terrorism....The notion that the government can, in effect, execute one of its own citizens far from a combat zone, with no judicial process and based on secret intelligence, makes some legal authorities deeply uneasy.
No kidding! So we have a Democratic Congress that believes that his cell phones calls should be protected, but it's okay for Obama to be judge, jury, and executioner? Meanwhile, non-US citizens that have committed or attempted acts of terrorism get read their Miranda rights and tried in New York City?
David E
The Obama administration’s decision to authorize the killing by the Central Intelligence Agency of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes, a mainstay of the campaign against terrorism....The notion that the government can, in effect, execute one of its own citizens far from a combat zone, with no judicial process and based on secret intelligence, makes some legal authorities deeply uneasy.
No kidding! So we have a Democratic Congress that believes that his cell phones calls should be protected, but it's okay for Obama to be judge, jury, and executioner? Meanwhile, non-US citizens that have committed or attempted acts of terrorism get read their Miranda rights and tried in New York City?
David E
