From Fox News:
Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to outline the legal framework for the use of lethal force in targeted killings of Americans overseas in a major speech at Northwestern University law school, an Obama administration official said Sunday night.
Holder's speech Monday comes five months after the killing of U.S.-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen in a drone attack. The official said the attorney general plans to say that lethal force is legal under a Sept. 18, 2001, joint congressional resolution. The Authorization for Use of Military Force enacted a week after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks authorizes the use of all necessary force in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States. So, where is the ACLU on this, where are editorials from the NY Times and Las Vegas Sun opposing killing Americans overseas without the benefit of a trial? When will the anti-war activists hold a huge rally denouncing the Obama administration for these killings without a trial?
Because this is the Obama administration involved in a close re-election campaign, they will be quiet, just as they have been since Obama has been elected.
As far as this policy, the American government killing Americans who are engaging in terrorism abroad, it is a tricky situation. I would be much more comfortable if the American was convicted in absentia in an American court, if it is at all possible.
But it seems strange that the Obama administration, who has only asked for 4 federal death penalty cases in open federal court since 2010, would be so eager to kill an American overseas without the benefit of some kind of trial.
So, where are the liberal protests?
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