Someone leaked the administration's white paper on targeted killing of American citizens to NBC.
"Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation D...der of Al Qa’ida or An Associated Force" can be found at the link. (Before you ask me what an "associated force is, I don't know.)
One quote stands out in particular:
This paper does not attempt to determine the minimum requirements necessary to render such an operation lawful, nor does it assess what might be required to render a lethal operation against a U.S. citizen lawful in other circumstances.
Think carefully about the implications of that single sentence.
To accept this white paper as legitimate, you would have to place your complete trust in the competence and ethics of President Obama, his underlings in the administration, and of his successors to the Oval Office. And if you think I'm willing to do that, you haven't been paying attention.
Onward and upward,
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