Awlaki was scum. I have no sympathy whatsoever for him or any other American who would go overseas to give aid and support to our enemies in their designs to cause this country harm. He deserved his fate.
That said, hasn’t Obama crossed a line here in taking upon himself powers that not only cannot be found in the Constitution but rather blatantly contradict it? I mean, he is arguing that he is within his rights to order the deaths of American citizens without a trial. He has openly broken the highest law of our land. All of the legal arguments and case law in the world shouldn’t take priority over the Constitution.
Perhaps I’m off base here, in which case I apologize, but shouldn’t we talking impeachment? These powers he is claiming could theoretically eventually be turned against any one of us.
I don’t think you’re off base at all. No anonymously written tricked out DOJ “white paper” can ever trump the US Constitution. Obama is in open defiance of the document he swore an oath to defend.
Extra judicial killings = murder.