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Leaked: Obama's Rules For Assassinating American Citizens

cathyreisenwitz writes "For over a year now journalists, civil liberties advocates, and members of Congress have been asking the Obama administration to release internal memoranda from the Office of Legal Counsel justifying Obama's targeted killing program. While the White House continues to deny that such memos exist, NBC is reporting that it has acquired the next best thing: A secretish 16-page white paper from the Department of Justice that was provided to select members of the Senate last June." Spencer Ackerman at Wired says the leaked rules "[trump] traditional Constitutional protections American citizens enjoy from being killed by their government without due process" by redefining the concept of "imminence."

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  1. Re:Your best bet is to by kenaaker · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, and this guy's got the biggest DICK ever conceived of and satisfies all his women just by air kissing at them. Idiot

  2. Re:Oh, the surprise. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    News flash: Absolutely no country on earth is "friends" with the USA. We're not "enemies", but don't think even for a second that anyone is "friends" with the USA.

    You are necessarily tolerated. You're like the big, crazy-strong retarded kid in school. Absolutely nobody likes them, everyone makes fun of them behind their back, but if the kid comes up to you, you act as friendly as possible and go along with whatever, because the alternative is the retard losing it and beating you half to death.

    That's you, USA.

  3. Re:Oh, the surprise. by Jmc23 · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Reading comprehension fail.

    The judgement part is not about whether they belong to al-Qa'ida, it is whether they present an imminent threat. Apparently your grade 3 education missed that in the memo and it's even mentionned in the summary.

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