NBC
by Erin McClam
February 5, 2013

Legal experts expressed grave reservations Tuesday about an Obama administration memo concluding that the United States can order the killing of American citizens believed to be affiliated with al-Qaida — with one saying the White House was acting as “judge, jury and executioner.”

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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/...drone-memo?lite

Hey America..........you re-elected a dictator wannabe. That comes with lots of "implications".........

Attorney General Eric Holder, in a talk at Northwestern University Law School in March, endorsed the constitutionality of targeted killings of Americans provided that the government determines such an individual poses “an imminent threat of violent attack.”

Whatever happened to the administration's position that there was no such thing as a 'war on terror,' and that there were no imminent threats?

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Attorney General Eric Holder, in a talk at Northwestern University Law School in March, endorsed the constitutionality of targeted killings of Americans provided that the government determines such an individual poses “an imminent threat of violent attack.”

Whatever happened to the administration's position that there was no such thing as a 'war on terror,' and that there were no imminent threats?

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This is a very loose definition. It could be anyone at any given time the administration wants it to be.

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