How Many Americans Are Targeted For Assassination? -- Salon
When The Washington Post's Dana Priest first revealed (in passing) back in January that the Obama administration had compiled a hit list of American citizens targeted for assassination, she wrote that "as of several months ago, the CIA list included three U.S. citizens." In April, both the Post and the NYT confirmed that the administration had specifically authorized the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki. Today, The Washington Times' Eli Lake has an interview with Obama's top Terrorism adviser John Brennan in which Brennan strongly suggests that the number of U.S. citizens targeted for assassination could actually be "dozens":
Dozens of Americans have joined terrorist groups and are posing a threat to the United States and its interests abroad, the president's most senior adviser on counterterrorism and homeland security said Thursday. . . . "There are, in my mind, dozens of U.S. persons who are in different parts of the world, and they are very concerning to us," said John O. Brennan, deputy White House national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism. . . .
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My Comment: If officials in the previous Bush administration were talking about assassinating U.S. citizens abroad, the uproar in the main stream media, Congress, and God only knows what else .... the uproar would be so loud and demanding that I am sure it would be covered 24/7.
A different administration .... and one favored by most journalists and pundits .... the reaction is mute at best, supportive and understanding at worse. And Congress .... who were so eager and demanding in the past to investigate the CIA when it become known that they had plans to assassinate Fidel Castro and other officials .... this Congress has put it's head into the sand.