Targeting A U.S. Citizen For Assassination Is Making Some Uneasy

U.S. Decision to Approve Killing of Cleric Causes Unease -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s decision to authorize the killing by the Central Intelligence Agency of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes, a mainstay of the campaign against terrorism.

The notion that the government can, in effect, execute one of its own citizens far from a combat zone, with no judicial process and based on secret intelligence, makes some legal authorities deeply uneasy.

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My Comment: If this was President Bush's order, the New York Times would be beside itself on condemning such a policy. But since this is President Obama's policy .... everyone just feels "uneasy".

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