[Erik Latranyi]

Intelligence operations are overseen by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee. An important operation, especially one involving a US citizen (should) be brought before the committee.

I agree that briefing and asking for consent from the bipartisan Intelligence group would be acceptable, I do not see any evidence that Obama did such a thing.

[Krankor]

In the future, if Obama wants to assassinates another American citizen, he should first appoint an anarcho-syndicalist commune. The members would take turns as a sort of an executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a 2/3 majority in the case of more major issues