Quantum Windbag
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Just think about this for a minute. Barack Obama, like George Bush before him, has claimed the authority to order American citizens murdered based solely on the unverified, uncharged, unchecked claim that they are associated with Terrorism and pose "a continuing and imminent threat to U.S. persons and interests." They're entitled to no charges, no trial, no ability to contest the accusations. Amazingly, the Bush administration's policy of merely imprisoning foreign nationals (along with a couple of American citizens) without charges -- based solely on the President's claim that they were Terrorists -- produced intense controversy for years. That, one will recall, was a grave assault on the Constitution. Shouldn't Obama's policy of ordering American citizens assassinated without any due process or checks of any kind -- not imprisoned, but killed -- produce at least as much controversy?
Yemen - Salon.com
Don't forget he is first prez to openly claim power to assassinate American citizens without trial.
Not that I am defending this, but the 3 words I put in bold. How do you know? How do you know the Facts are not checked, and verified? Exactly How many times has it been used to date??? Why do you assume that everyone in our Intelligence, and Defense community is a bunch of Lying assholes that can not be trusted at all? After all it is the word of those people that the Government would be using to carry out this power they claim to have.
Again not supporting the idea, just think your wording exposes you for someone who thinks anything to do with the CIA, NSA, or US Military must mean lies, deceit, and murder.
Who were they checked by? The way the government is supposed to work is no one branch can do anything without another branch giving the OK. The legislature writes a law, the executive enforces it, the judicial makes sure the executive follows the law as written, and the legislature makes sure the judicial branch does not become a law unto itself. What happened here is the executive branch decided it had the power to kill US citizens without actually pointing to a law that proves they are right, and then executed him without making a case to the judicial branch. Instead of playing rock, paper, scissors Obama decided to play solitaire, and then wrote the rules so he could not loose.