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Holder: US can legally kill Americans in terror groups
MSNBC ^ | 3/6/2012 | Pete Williams

Posted on 03/05/2012 11:31:46 PM PST by South40

The U.S. government is legally justified in killing its own citizens overseas if they are involved in plotting terror attacks against America, Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday, offering the Obama administration's most detailed explanation so far of its controversial targeted killing program.

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The Fifth Amendment provides that no one can be "deprived of life" without due process of law. But that due process, Holder said, doesn't necessarily come from a court.

"Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process," the attorney general said.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: doj; holder; terrorism; wot
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1 posted on 03/05/2012 11:31:51 PM PST by South40
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To: South40

Can the U.S. say “90% of guns in Mexico come from the United States” and then work hard to make it become a reality?


2 posted on 03/05/2012 11:46:53 PM PST by FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs
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To: South40

I’m for public hanging. Didn’t we do that once to traitors?


3 posted on 03/06/2012 12:02:06 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm...)
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To: South40; xzins
Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.

Isn't this the same clown who was arguing that foreign terrorists in Gitmo should be given Civilian Trials in United States courts? Didn't he represent these terrorists before he was the AG?

4 posted on 03/06/2012 12:06:06 AM PST by P-Marlowe
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To: South40
I am thinking that this administration is a terror to the Constitution, by their actions you can see who is more dangerous and conflicted.....

FYEH, traitorous swine that you are, and your Dept of JustUS.

5 posted on 03/06/2012 12:25:04 AM PST by SERE_DOC ( “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” Tho)
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To: South40

More non-news. The US can kill any opponents of Obama.


6 posted on 03/06/2012 12:42:05 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
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To: South40

Holder is a fascist, as is Obama. People STILL do not get it yet.

Good Read:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


7 posted on 03/06/2012 1:17:23 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascist info.. http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: South40

Coming to a gun clinging Bible study group near you.


8 posted on 03/06/2012 1:48:13 AM PST by BipolarBob (When do the salmon return to Capistrano?)
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To: South40

To define terror by Obama’s standards is to point a finger at returning servermen, conservatives, and any group opposed to him. Obama now can kill them all.


9 posted on 03/06/2012 1:51:35 AM PST by bmwcyle (I am ready to serve Jesus on Earth because the GOP failed again)
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To: South40

“Holder: US can legally kill Americans in terror groups”

Let’s play jeopardy.
What is batfe?


10 posted on 03/06/2012 1:54:40 AM PST by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: South40
>Holder: US can legally kill Americans in terror groups

Janet Nappy's uncle Janet Reno tole him so!

11 posted on 03/06/2012 2:03:24 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (BO Stinks! Like Mitts magic underwear!)
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To: South40

Based on Holder’s summary, i.e. The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process then Americans should be able to kill their politicians if they represent a threat to America.

I’m just saying...


12 posted on 03/06/2012 2:29:08 AM PST by maddog55 (OBAMA: Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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To: maddog55

“”Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. “

Holder just blew up his rationale opposing military tribunals for terrorists. Wait a minute! Maybe this is actually his objective.


13 posted on 03/06/2012 2:52:10 AM PST by Makana
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To: South40

Andrew Breitbart?


14 posted on 03/06/2012 3:16:14 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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“Holder: US can legally kill Americans in terror groups”

Does this include Obama’s two terrorist friends, Ayers and Dohrn? Both should be executed for their roles in terror attacks which led to the deaths of police officers. As for Holder, he helped in the pardons of members of the Puerto Rican Marxist-revolutionary terror group, the FALN. Also in communist Weather Underground member Susan Rosenberg’s pardon. She was caught transporting 800 pounds of explosives for upcoming attacks (in 1981). Bill Clinton, with Holder’s help, pardoned her.


15 posted on 03/06/2012 4:53:09 AM PST by ETL (oB)
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Sorry, just correcting tagline screw up.


16 posted on 03/06/2012 4:55:27 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

Considering that the current administration & its minions are apparently a “terror group”, just what does he mean? Self-loathing suicide???? I am confused.


17 posted on 03/06/2012 4:58:06 AM PST by hal ogen (1st Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: South40
But that due process, Holder said, doesn't necessarily come from a court.

If the King of Amerika says you're an enemy of the State, the State can kill you.

18 posted on 03/06/2012 5:00:36 AM PST by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: bmwcyle

He can try.

He will reap what he sows...


19 posted on 03/06/2012 5:07:48 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Steampunk- Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today)
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The U.S. government is legally justified in killing its own citizens overseas if they are involved in plotting terror attacks against America

(The above-indicated edits await us in a second Obama term.)

20 posted on 03/06/2012 5:13:38 AM PST by Campion ("It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." -- Franklin)
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