At what point do the same people who swore up and down that Bush was turning the US into a police state protest Obama's policies that are far far worse. Torture? No. Killing? Yes.
U.S. to offer legal backing for "targeted killing": source - Yahoo! News
U.S. to offer legal backing for "targeted killing": source - Yahoo! News
More at the source.WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday plans to outline how U.S. laws empower the government to kill Americans overseas who engage in terrorism against their home country, a source familiar with the matter said, months after a drone strike killed a U.S.-born cleric who plotted attacks from Yemen.
Civil liberties groups have been pressuring the administration to offer justification for what has been described as a top-secret "targeted kill" program in which Americans who have joined al Qaeda or other militants are deemed legitimate targets to be killed overseas.