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U.S. to offer legal backing for "targeted killing" (Americans overseas): source
Reuters ^ | 3/04/12 | Jeremy Pelofsky

Posted on 03/04/2012 4:51:14 PM PST by Libloather

U.S. to offer legal backing for "targeted killing": source
By Jeremy Pelofsky
WASHINGTON | Sun Mar 4, 2012 7:23pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday plans to outline how U.S. laws empower the government to kill Americans overseas who engage in terrorism against their home country, a source familiar with the matter said, months after a drone strike killed a U.S.-born cleric who plotted attacks from Yemen.

Civil liberties groups have been pressuring the administration to offer justification for what has been described as a top-secret "targeted kill" program in which Americans who have joined al Qaeda or other militants are deemed legitimate targets to be killed overseas.

Attorney General Eric Holder plans to address the issue and the underpinning legal principles for using lethal force during remarks at Northwestern University School of Law on Monday afternoon in Chicago, the source said Sunday on condition of anonymity.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: citizenstargetted; defensebill; holder; killing; legal; targeted; targettedkilling; uscitizen
They can do it here with Commiecare™, why not overseas?
1 posted on 03/04/2012 4:51:22 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather
I suspect that this will be a convenience for the current administration in ridding itself of "troublesome" citizens. When it is provable that the person thereby eliminated is innocent, a "heartfelt oops" will be issued.

Sounds conspiratorial, doesn't it. Just wait!

2 posted on 03/04/2012 4:56:53 PM PST by davisfh
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To: Libloather

Imagine if George W. Bush had done this. Oh the furore.


3 posted on 03/04/2012 5:01:39 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: davisfh

Anybody who popped out of mom’s vj in the USA, then was schlepped off to Yemen for the rest of his life and took up arms with the Taliban, IS NOT ‘AMERICAN’ BY ANYBODY’S STREACH OF THE IMAGINATION.

Sorry ‘bout that.


4 posted on 03/04/2012 5:02:43 PM PST by Flintlock (Photo ID for ALL VOTING. Let our dead rest in peace.)
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To: Libloather

While I care about terrorism, I do not like the idea of an ‘administration’ determining what “terrorism” is.

Especially with the ‘stockpiling food = domestic terror’ crap the DHS has spewed lately.


5 posted on 03/04/2012 5:13:28 PM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Flintlock

Maybe not by YOUR definition...

but I bring you back to the ‘first they came after the...’

See how that attitude can bite you?


6 posted on 03/04/2012 5:14:37 PM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: davisfh

Realistically, this idea applies to members of the Obama administration as well, does it not?


7 posted on 03/04/2012 5:17:00 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: Libloather

As an enemy of the 0bama regime, I have to ask:
Who decides who will be eliminated? Emperor Hussein I ?


8 posted on 03/04/2012 5:17:51 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: davisfh

Who are you going to complain to if you favorite uncle gets zapped for being a terrorist? I’d think all the information would be highly classified.


9 posted on 03/04/2012 5:32:13 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: Libloather

Technically, Andrew Breibart wasn’t actually overseas ... but that’s a mere technicality.


10 posted on 03/04/2012 5:46:29 PM PST by ClearCase_guy ("And the public gets what the public wants" -- The Jam)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Ok, so who is the reciprocal agreement with? Iran? N. Korea? Mexico? China? Russia? This is a very slick slope indeed.


11 posted on 03/04/2012 6:00:42 PM PST by quickquiver (No, means N O.)
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To: Libloather
great...we can kill ‘em but we can't eavesdrop on their phone conversations...
12 posted on 03/04/2012 7:39:05 PM PST by stylin19a (time to Obamanos)
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To: Flintlock

Hey, I agree with you wholeheartedly and was not referring to “citizens” fitting the description you’ve just laid out. My fear is that it will be applied to “ordinary” citizens who simply disagree with this or any future administration.


13 posted on 03/04/2012 8:45:39 PM PST by davisfh
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