Thursday, February 7, 2013

Glenn Greenwald: Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/obama-kill-list-doj-memo

The president's partisan lawyers purport to vest him with the most extreme power a political leader can seize

The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but has exercised it in practice. 

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