Al-Awlaki publicly renounced his US citizenship and was plotting terror attacks against America in the mountains of Yemen. Sending in police to arrest and mirandize him would have been stupid and dangerous. The constitution is not a suicide pact. Killing him was the absolute correct thing to do and the goofy Ron Paul/libertarian types arguing otherwise are living in a world of theory and fantasy.
There is no way I’d trust the defense of this nation to anyone who didn’t understand the necessity of taking Al-Awlaki out.
Got a source for that?