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…
“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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Quite right—it’s always best to subcontract out such “wet work”.
Where did I say he was?
Ever hear of operation Mockingbird?
I’m not saying anyone killed him, but for the sake of argument, if someone killed him and made it look like a heart attack or used a drug to cause a heart attack, how would his wife know?
"Pick Your Poison" poisons in murders that mimic heart attacks.
What makes FR look like fools is the person who can’t read a post like null and void’s and realize that he’s asking about the LEGALITY of an assassination.
If you keep reading through the thread, though, you’ll see some of the reasons that the question is being asked regarding Breitbart. Although this thread doesn’t address the particular timing, which is a whole ‘nother aspect of why this death is suspicious.
“That’s not likely to happen tho because TF’ers (Tin Foil hat wearers) like you will never admit you’re wrong, everything is a cover-up regardless of all the overwhelming evidence.”
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Quite right, these tin-foil wearers will NEVER accept the truth. You know, I bet some of those conspiracy folks think the Reichstag fire was NOT started solely by that dim-witted Dutch communist who was convicted in a German court of the deed and legally executed. Some of these FReeper conspiracy nuts still harbor the insane idea that JUST MAYBE the Reichstag fire was part of a conspiracy designed to deliver absolute power to Hitler and the Nazis. Of course, sane folks such as yourself would never believe there could be such a conspiracy. You should be very proud of yourself.
You think it’s too late for judicial or electoral “adjustments”?
Very interesting.
The same “conspiracy theorists” who believe that Hitler’s people started the Reichstag fire probably believe there was a systematic effort within the German government to exterminate the Jews!
They will NEVER be convinced that they are wrong. No matter what evidence you show them.
Wrong!
To insinuate that Breitbart may have been assassinated at all is pure crap!
FR doesn’t need this kind of negative attention and anyone who condones this junk should be banned, period.
The questions should be asked on Breitbart.com, not here.
In the title of this thread!
Do you see that funny mark at the end?
It’s called a question mark.
People customarily use it to designate a question, not a statement of fact.
His death will be ruled a heart attack and you’ll still see nutjobs say he was murdered.
exactly
Instead of insults why don’t you try refuting something that’s been stated. Name calling just reinforces that you don’t grasp what’s being stated and can’t refute it.
There are untraceable ways to make people “drop dead.”
A regime which conceived and authorized Murdergate, aka Fast And Furious, would not blink at passing, via many cutouts, a little bit of “drop dead” medicine from the CIA’s pharmacopoeia to a willing assassin.
Heck, Ayers and the Weather Underground happily discussed the logistics of killing and disposing of up to 25 MILLION recalcitrant dead-ender conservatives.
And ironically, the video Andrew was supposedly going to release showed an adult Obama yucking it up with Ayers in a revolutionary context.
And the same day or nearly, Rush gets a bomb scare, which is an unveiled assassination warning.
But like somebody said up thread, some Freepers still believe the jury is out on the Reichstag Fire. (Maybe it really WAS the communists?)
See 204. Think “drop dead” poisons will always be found at autopsy?
Come on, would the CIA have them (for many decades) if they would just be found at autopsy? Please, if you are that naive, I have a great bridge to sell you.
Randy, why in the Reuters article did Breitbart’s father-in-law say that he knew of no heart problems, and why did the coroner’s office say Breitbart had not seen a doctor in over a year - if all the claims coming out of the woodwork (since his death) about heart attacks, hospitalizations, moving his office because he was short-winded, etc - all within the last year - are accurate?
Those claims can’t all be true, and it is not “pure crap” to wonder why the discrepancies. In fact, given the death threats Breitbart had been receiving (about which Bill O’Reilly had previously publicly said he was worried) , the fact that Soros had made threats to the media if they reported on the eligibility issue and the very evening he died Breitbart had conducted an interview of Sheriff Joe Arpaio regarding Obama’s birth certificate and draft registration being forged, Bill Ayers’ mother introducing Obama as a foreign student, etc... it would actually be “pure crap” to assume that there COULD NOT HAVE BEEN foul play - especially before an autopsy was completed or any of his medical history was verified by anybody.
It seems apparent that you’ve not bothered to read the thread. If that’s the level of diligence you’re gonna have, it’s a waste of my time to converse with you. Thanks for playing.
And you have been here long enough to know that FR has been given the reputation of a bunch of conspiracy kooks by the MSM even though it is not.
This is why we don’t have a higher standing among conservatives because we keep allowing this junk.
It costs us monthlies mega bucks to keep FR going, and for what? This kind of junk?
I’m not going to just let this roll off my back because I’m helping to keep the lights on!
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