WASHINGTON (AP) -- An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say, and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to do so legally under its new stricter targeting policy issued last year.
The CIA drones watching him cannot strike because he's a U.S. citizen and the Justice Department must build a case against him, a task it hasn't completed.
Four U.S. officials said the American suspected terrorist is in a country that refuses U.S. military action on its soil and that has proved unable to go after him. And President Barack Obama's new policy says American suspected terrorists overseas can only be killed by the military, not the CIA, creating a policy conundrum for the White House. More
I'm very conservative and I agree with 3:37. Everything you listed...innocent until proven guilty, right to a fair trial before a jury of your peers, right to a defense....all fundamental rights AND part of the foundation upon which this nation was built. If you ignore that part of the constitution....where does it end?
It's either a government insider that Obama wants to get rid of or it is the Taliban and Obama is making excuses why he can't kill the guy with the drone. My guess is the latter part.
How is this legal? What happened to innocent before proven guilty, right to fair trial, etc.?
ReplyDeleteDon't get me wrong. I do not support terrorists!
But what if it is the wrong person? You see stories often about innocent people being released from jail after 20 years.
This stuff is scary!
It's a good thing this is hush hush.
ReplyDeleteI'm very conservative and I agree with 3:37. Everything you listed...innocent until proven guilty, right to a fair trial before a jury of your peers, right to a defense....all fundamental rights AND part of the foundation upon which this nation was built. If you ignore that part of the constitution....where does it end?
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ReplyDeleteSHHHHHHHH, don't tell anyone, but the CIA already killed him...
ReplyDelete3:37 hit the nail on the head. Besides jow do we know if the" person of onterest" is not connected with some crooked government official?
ReplyDeleteIf you wanna visit a country where people didn't stand up for their own constitution, you should get blasted by the drones
ReplyDeleteIt's either a government insider that Obama wants to get rid of or it is the Taliban and Obama is making excuses why he can't kill the guy with the drone. My guess is the latter part.
ReplyDeletehe is trying to prevent them from killing his terrorist friends.
ReplyDeleteThe CIA has made no attempts to hide the fact that they are a rouge agency and do not take orders from the president.
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