>>except we have never done extralegal killing for acts of espionage<<
It is a new world — no time like the present to tell the world we will NOT allow our secrets to be published and that we WILL take action.
And such action is not “extralegal.” It is 100% within international law guidelines.
Anyway to this US Citizen I DO NOT want any precedent established where international law trumps the US Constitution and our legal system! To me international law is a legal fiction, law without the power of enforcement is a chimera! Who do you want to be the cops when the US is charges with violating international law. Something we seem to be charged with by every foreign yahoo with a soapbox.
Also I don't want foreign intel agents enforcing their espionage problems on US soil. They do that I want them charged with murder!