[Alex Murphy]

....the disclosure last month by news organizations that Mr. Awlaki, 39, had been added to the C.I.A. kill list shifted the terms of the legal debate in several ways. He is located far from hostilities in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the perpetrators of 9/11 are believed to be hiding....Most significantly, he is an American, born in New Mexico, arguably protected by the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee not to be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” In a traditional war, anyone allied with the enemy, regardless of citizenship, is a legitimate target; German-Americans who fought with the Nazis in World War II were given no special treatment.

[Ole Okie]

Get Mitch Rapp on the job ASAP.

[a fool in paradise]

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.

And what did they think that cloak and dagger espioniage was all about?

Awlaki does not operate on US soil. If Bin Laden held "dual" citizenship would we be hesitant to take him out with a missile strike?

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Is this Obama’s fault?

[Nick Danger]

Well, he does have the right to remain silent. His remains will be silent too, I imagine.

[Robe]

No different that a police sniper taking out a US Citizen Criminal holding a hostage at gun point....

[Zack Attack]

They get one right and will probably end up apologizing over it.

[Lmo56]

Last I heard, treason and sedition were death penalty offenses ...

ANYONE betraying their country has forfeited their rights that they were afforded when they were law-abiding citizens of said country ...