Posted on 03/04/2012 8:28:17 AM PST by null and void
If Breitbart was assassinated, it could be perfectly legal under current US laws and policy.
CIA Lawyers Maintains Citizens Could be Targets if they are at War With the U.S.What is a weapon?
December 1, 2011
The Associated Press has reported that top national security lawyers in the Obama administration have determined that U.S. citizens are legitimate military targets when they take up arms with al-Qaeda.
Answering questions at a national security conference Thursday about the CIA killing of Anwar al-Alwaki, a radical American-born Muslim cleric who Obama descirbed as "the leader of external operations for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula”.
Al-Alwaki had been killed in a September 30 U.S. drone strike led by the CIA in the mountains of Yemen. The radical, whos fiery sermons made him a larger-than-life figure in the world of Jihad, had long eluded capture by CIA and Yemeni security operatives.
However, in 2011, after days of surveillance, the New York Times reported, armed drones operated by the CIA took off from a new secret American base in the Arabian Peninsula, crossed into the northern Yemen border and rained a barrage of Hellfire missiles at a car carrying al-Alwaki and other top operatives from Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen.
According to the AP, the government lawyers - CIA counsel Stephen Preston and Pentagon counsel Jeh Johnson - did not directly address the al-Alwaki case. But they said U.S. citizens don't have immunity when they're at war with the United States.
Johnson said only the executive branch, not the courts, are equipped to make decisions about who qualifies as an enemy, the AP reported.
Is someone who threatened to end the Obama presidency "at war" with the U.S. in the eyes of the president?
IF the president determined that Andrew Breitbart's release of video of his college days would threaten his presidency, and
IF the president believes his presidency is essential to the continuation of the US government,
THEN the president would be OBLIGATED to remove the threat.
As such he would be required, in his own mind, to issue a presidential finding that Andrew Beritbart needs to be eliminated before the videos are released.
The CIA, would legally be bound to follow the presidential directive and eliminate the threat in a timely fashion.
After all, destabilizing the US government is an act of war, and in perfect alignment with al Qaeda's goals, isn't it? Isn't it?
Although some of us old fashioned folks, bitterly clinging to the Constitution, might argue that it is a freedom of speech issue…
His family is suffering greatly. Any speculation that his death was caused by means of murder could only further that pain. It is useless speculation at best. The toxicology report and final autopsy will be released in May. I suggest we wait for the final results.
I was saddened to read about Douglas.
I don't have a problem with that.
He must of had the same heart condition that Vince Foster had.
“Andrew Breibart for Emmanuel Goldstein...”
Indeed ... the left surely enjoyed their “5-minute hate” to celebrate his untimely demise.
And the Nuremberg Trials require everyone to exercise the good judgement to recognize evil when they meet it face to face. "Just following orders...." is not a sufficient defense
>>>- Andrew Breitbart spent over a week in the hospital last year for heart related issues. This was confirmed by his #1 business partner. -<<<
Do you have a source for that?
Let’s stop this conspiracy nonsense and discuss FACTS!! Breitbart had mentioned, apparently recently, that he had some sort of heart issue. His father in law, Orson Bean, also mentioned this, just after Andrew’s death. From what Andrew’s friends have said about him, he lived life at a breakneck pace. With that kind of lifestyle, pressure is placed on all organs, but especially the heart. If it’s weak, in any way, it can give out, sometimes quickly, and fatally, as we’ve seen.
I question the timing...
Andrew took out Obama’s corrupt election machine - ACORN
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For sure Obama was not too sad about breitbart passing.
Andrew took out Obama’s corrupt election machine - ACORN
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For sure Obama was not too sad about breitbart passing.
It seems that some have forgotten what FR does. We dig. And ruminate. Otherwise Dan Rather would still be at SeeBS.
Maybe it was AOK, maybe not. But it wasn't a crime. The case the democrats tried to make was it was in violation of Reagan's 'do not deal with terrorist' policy.
Aren’t they using them against us now?
Surely not. We're talking about a few planeloads of now-old technology thirty years ago. Allegedly only enough to convince the 'friendly' iranian authorities North was dealing with that they were in fact dealing with decision makers in the US.
I don’t know much of this story but in the 80’s I remember hearing a bit (I was young). Didn’t Colonel North go to jail? Seriously didn’t hear much about it.
No he didn't. The 'crime' part of Iran Contra ws the violation of the so-called 'Boland Amendment' which was in effect for a short period of time, but I think North was nailed for misleading congress (always the only charge that stick in these 'scandals'). Many argue that this amendment itself represented an illegal impingment of executive authority.
Personally, I look at the intentions of the two different parts of the scandal - the selling of arms to supposed friendlies in Iran for the purpose of getting their help in the release of Americans held by terrorists in Lebanon, and with the proceeds the purchase and provision of arms for the counter revolutionaries fighting the marxist government in Nicaragua - and conclude that what the congress called a 'crime' was really the Reagan administration trying to conduct their stated foreign policy in spite of the political motivated interference of the democrat controlled congress.
They have already crossed the rubicon of deliberate mass murder with Operation Fast And Furious/Murdergate.
Killing an AB or three now would mean nothing to them.
It would have been if Hitler didn’t over-reach.
Breitbart had as many and as powerful enemies, as JFK.
Obviously every resource available out there, would be available to those powerful enemies with almost unlimited resources and knowledge of how such things can be done.
I don’t know one way or the other, whether Breitbart was killed, or suffered a terrible natural fate.
I don’t even know whether it is possible to induce a heart attack and make it look like a natural cause.
I do know, that if someone with the resources available to those who were Breitbart’s enemies was determined to kill him, they would know his personal history and know he would have been vulnerable to a coronary.
Being not only a weakness, but also the perfect cover. “He had a history of heart issue”.
The one think I do know, is I am more than a bit suspicious of the circumstances.
It’s a highly, highly unusual coincidence.
and since when has a narcissistic dictator NOT over reached?
The CIA got out of the assassination business over 30 years ago. However, organized crime and foreign intel services are quite competent at the trade.
The dims have plenty of contacts in both groups. Think somebody from Chicago would know how to hire a hitman?
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