Posted on 11/15/2010 7:19:38 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration today argued before a federal court that it should have unreviewable authority to kill Americans the executive branch has unilaterally determined to pose a threat. Government lawyers made that claim in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) charging that the administration's asserted targeted killing authority violates the Constitution and international law. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia heard arguments from both sides today.
"Not only does the administration claim to have sweeping power to target and kill U.S. citizens anywhere in the world, but it makes the extraordinary claim that the court has no role in reviewing that power or the legal standards that apply," said CCR Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei, who presented arguments in the case. "The Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected the government's claim to an unchecked system of global detention, and the district court should similarly reject the administration's claim here to an unchecked system of global targeted killing."
(Excerpt) Read more at aclu.org ...
It has begun!
“....it should have unreviewable authority to kill Americans the executive branch has unilaterally determined to pose a threat.”
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All newly elected Republican Congressmen had better watch their backs.
but playing a little smackey face with a terrorist for information is illegal... FUBO
(NOT sarcasm)
To kill is OK, but do not waterboard!
ACLU are lying scum. Believe NOTHING they say. If it were reported by ANY reputable source then it might be worth listening to, but NEVER direct from the Activist Communist Lawyers Union.
BAsically they are saying that there is a war being waged against America, and sometimes “US Citizens” like “Anwar Al-Aulaqi” fight for the enemy, and so the US should be hamstrung and unable to attack the enemy just in case there be someone like “Anwar Al-Aulaqi”, a “US Citizen” around.
Seriously dude. Don’t be sucked in by an ACLU webpage again.
This is an ACLU webpage. Read the article to see what they’re actually saying. Synopsis in #7.
That is the essence of tyranny. It doesn’t get any clearer.
a thanks
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When an American citizen becomes a foreign combatant, he becomes a man on the loose hunting down American soldiers or even private US citizens. This in itself represents a condition of imminent danger to American lives. If it proves impractical to arrest this person, and the only way to neutralize him is to put a bullet in his head from the window of a hotel in Beirut, it would be irresponsible of the US government to discard this option.
Is there any better definition of absolute tyranny?
The Left and Obammy’s Homeland inSecurity sees non-leftists as a domestic terrorist threat. If the courts let this stand, we have arrived in Nazi Germany.
why should the police be the only ones with this right?
Uh oh. Didn’t 0bama just identify us as “the enemy?”
Revelation 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
I wonder how many different settings are on the rapescan machines.
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