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Feb 5, 2010 5:18 PM #543891
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/02/04/assassinations


The U.S. intelligence community policy on killing American citizens who have joined al Qaeda requires first obtaining high-level government approval, a senior official disclosed to Congress on Wednesday.
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair said in each case a decision to use lethal force against a U.S. citizen must get special permission. . . .
He also said there are criteria that must be met to authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen that include "whether that American is involved in a group that is trying to attack us, whether that American is a threat to other Americans. Those are the factors involved."


Tl:dr

The president has the ability to order the assassination of any American citizen without the approval of the courts or congress.

And then it goes on to describe why that's ****ed up in case that wasn't tremendously obvious.
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Feb 5, 2010 6:16 PM #543906
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Feb 5, 2010 7:55 PM #543933
I read the first few paragraphs. It's written by an American Republican, the demographic well known for having the lowest levels of intelligence on the planet, and also for a tendency to make things up to try to slander Democrats. I will therefore doubt the sources, although it doesn't prove anything on its own.

(Edit: I take that back (rather than remove it to avoid confusion if you read it already). From further down he seems more central than right wing, relatively.)

If it is actually true, then it is, by and large, bad. I don't really see why you can't just arrest the guys unless it's gotten to the stage where deadly force would not require presidential permission.


Edit: Read some more:

Obama's presidential assassination policy ... literally makes him judge, jury, and executioner.


Uh, no it doesn't. It makes him judge and jury. The executioner is subcontracted. Moron.
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Feb 8, 2010 2:40 PM #544825
I love it when things like this come into the public eye, because you just know that people are gonna blow this up to mean so much more than it really does.
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Feb 9, 2010 6:10 PM #545220
Either way anything that circumvents constitutional checks and balances is bad.

Also, I believe the main point of the article was that we sacrifice constitutional protections in the name of 'war', and that that's bad.
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