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…
Can we let the autopsy conclude first and until then, let the poor man rest in peace.
Of course.
A government that murders one of its own citizens can absolutely be trusted to release accurate autopsy results, can’t it?...
Why didn’t he have personal security?
Surely anyone making the claims that he did understands that they are targets.
If this is true, this would make Watergate, Iran Contra and the Tea-Pot scandal combined look like a petty crime in comparison.
Interesting the media was claiming his death was of natural causes before an autopsy was conducted. Perhaps an Operation Mockingbird disinformation operation.
IF it’s true. I’m speculating based on knowing the law and the actors.
If it is actually legal, there is no there there.
(Although there should be!)
Wish we had Sheriff Arpaio’s coroner doing this work.
Almost as much as internet conspiracy theorists.
All of those things are petty scandals compared to what Barrack Obama and this administration and the democrat in congress have done to this country!
We will never know the real results of an autopsy, as that would be piece of cake for the killers!
Yep. Not "APPARENT natural causes", flat out natural causes...
Of course, our "educated" friends at Occupy won't understand that, since they likely read crap like "The Sexual Politics of Meat" while in college for 6 years racking up 300 thousand in student loan debt.
And yes, that's a real book, sadly....
Please read (and save) my damning "J'accuse" of the Obama regime, Murdergate, and the liberal media establishment.
Gangster Government, And Sakharov's Immunity.
I wrote it one day before the "death by natural causes" of Andrew Breitbart, while he was taking a walk alone near his home.
Really ridiculous post. Perhaps at least wait till the autopsy results are in before tossing out silly conspiracy theories?
Soros global governance agenda was also threatened by sunlight from Breitbart, same with the unions. They need Obama and current establishment to thrive.
Surely anyone making the claims that he did understands that they are targets.
We'll never know. Perhaps he thought he was immune? Perhaps he couldn't afford it?
We were told in the news that he died of natural causes. How did they know that?
Somebody should file a FOIA on Breitbart and see if the FBI had a file on him...
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