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Administration Ordered To Divulge Legal Basis For Killing Americans With Drones
An anonymous reader writes "In a claim brought by The New York Times and the ACLU, the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the administration must disclose the legal basis for targeting Americans with drones. From the article: 'Government officials from Obama on down have publicly commented on the program, but they claimed the Office of Legal Counsel's memo outlining the legal rationale about it was a national security secret. The appeals court, however, said on Monday that officials' comments about overseas drone attacks means the government has waived its secrecy argument. "After senior Government officials have assured the public that targeted killings are 'lawful' and that OLC advice 'establishes the legal boundaries within which we can operate,'" the appeals court said, "waiver of secrecy and privilege as to the legal analysis in the Memorandum has occurred" (PDF).'"
This isn't a new problem for the United States. The US has dealt with the same or similar problems in the past. The American renegades get all the due process needed for the circumstances. In fact, American renegades today are almost certainly getting more due process than has been performed in the past.
You can see a depiction of Americans in a similar legal status and how they were dealt with here.
Constitutionally it is fine. Arrests, formal legal charges, trials, judges and lawyers are not needed. If the renegades want that they can surrender and get those instead.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell