He killed a major leader of AQ, not "whoever he wants."
You don't get it. We are fighting a "War on Terror", not just a "War on al Qaeda". A couple of years ago, Janet Napolitano listed potential "terrorists" as being identified by "a Gadsden flag".
Can you not see the potential abuse of this policy in the wrong hands?
The is NOT about al Awlaki, who probably deserved what he got. This is about the power that you allow a president -- any president!
I don’t think I really care, but I do have a question —
How do we KNOW that the guy was really a major leader of AQ, who was responsible for American deaths?
Because the government told us? Because the guy bragged about it? Or do we have actual evidence?
The fear is that the government will SAY an American citizen did something really bad, and then feel free to kill them. The judicial system exists to evaluate the evidence the government has, so we know we are really targetting the bad guys.
I don’t think there was any question in this case that we got our man, but if there isn’t a process to evaluate the evidence, we have lost a critical protection against government overreach.