The attorney general offers a rationale for how the airstrike that killed U.S. citizen Anwar Awlaki in Yemen last year is in line with the Constitution.
Reporting from Washington and Chicago— The president has legal authority to target and kill American citizens working with Al Qaeda and its allies overseas, according to Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., who declared that when such people pose a threat to the country and cannot be captured, "we must take steps to stop them."
Speaking to an audience at Northwestern University Law School, Holder gave the most complete explanation to date of the Obama administration's legal rationale for killing people such as American-born Anwar Awlaki, who was targeted in a U.S. airstrike in Yemen last year.
Such killings can be ordered "in full accordance with the Constitution," but it requires "at least" an imminent threat in a situation where capture is not feasible, and when the strike is "conducted in a manner consistent" with the rules of war, Holder said.
"In this hour of danger," Holder said, "we simply cannot afford to wait until deadly plans are carried out. And we will not."
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I suppose the 16 year old son was a clear and present threat too. How far from the battlefield (or "Homeland") were they again?
Yeah 9:45, we'll just wait until the guy actually starts shooting up the place. And seems if you declare war on the US, you know the US is coming after you, you wouldn't put your family in harms way.
Let's not stop there, include stealing, murder, drug attics, and cheating wives.
this is simply a way for obama to take out anyone that disagrees with him. the nwo is certainly doing a number on us.
No, we should keep the jon walker linds of this world on welfare, in prison with everything they need for the rest of their lives for KILLING OUR MILITARY MEN & WOMEN...
drug attics
would that include drug cellars too? Or maybe I should say drug basements.
This is not only for real terrorist. This goes for us average citizens also. Obama can imprison us or kill us without ever charging us with a crime or even giving us a trial. Thanks to him signing the NDAA on New Years Eve.He can declare you a terrorist if you just disagree with Dictator Obama.
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