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Holder: No drone strikes on American citizens ‘not engaged in combat’
Yahoo News ^ | 7 Mar 2013 | Chris Moody

Posted on 03/07/2013 4:28:02 PM PST by mandaladon

Attorney General Eric Holder has responded to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's question about whether the federal government can legally use a drone strike against an American citizen on U.S. soil if the person is "not engaged in combat":

Earlier this week, Holder wrote in a letter to Paul that the president has the authority to order militarized drone strikes on American citizens within the United States, but only in “an extraordinary circumstance.”

In protest, Paul spoke for 13 hours straight on the Senate floor Wednesday, arguing against the drone policy.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: drone; drones; holder; rand; randsconcerntrolls; waronterror
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1 posted on 03/07/2013 4:28:04 PM PST by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon
Define 'combat' you piece of sh*t.

Sincerely,

2 posted on 03/07/2013 4:30:10 PM PST by skeeter
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To: mandaladon

It would all depend on who it is that defines “combat.”


3 posted on 03/07/2013 4:30:22 PM PST by OKRA2012
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To: skeeter

“Combat” = drinking coffee at Starbuck’s while posting on FR.


4 posted on 03/07/2013 4:34:11 PM PST by MeganC (The left have so twisted public perceptions that the truth now appears pornographic.- SpaceBar)
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To: MeganC

Oh oh.


5 posted on 03/07/2013 4:34:46 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Psalm 83)
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To: mandaladon

Khrushchev’s threat/prediction turned out to be correct.


6 posted on 03/07/2013 4:35:40 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: mandaladon

Anyone who voted to confirm this Brennan CIA POS should lose their reelection.


7 posted on 03/07/2013 4:37:00 PM PST by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: mandaladon

You have to parse everything these bastards say.

It’s just a matter of time before a drone will be used in this capacity, and it will be argued that the drone was not on American soil, but rather in American airspace.


8 posted on 03/07/2013 4:37:02 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: mandaladon

How about voter fraud?


9 posted on 03/07/2013 4:37:57 PM PST by Average Al
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To: mandaladon

A sure sign that Senator Paul was sucessful standing up to Holder.


10 posted on 03/07/2013 4:38:22 PM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Average Al
How about voter fraud?

The Baraqqis are working on a ballot-stuffing drone, LOL.

11 posted on 03/07/2013 4:39:03 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: mandaladon

Heard this on the CBS evening news and about fell out of my chair. Didn’t the government already state that vets are terrorists? Combative against the government could easily mean anyone who votes against or says anything against the usurper, is a Tea Party member, owns a Bible, owns a gun, etc. That just shut down any state seceeding from the Union. Welcome to al Amerika.


12 posted on 03/07/2013 4:39:10 PM PST by bgill
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To: mandaladon

We are being THREATENED.


13 posted on 03/07/2013 4:39:54 PM PST by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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To: mandaladon

Riiiigggghhhhtttttttt . . . . . . . . . . . . . and, I’m supposed to believe anything that comes out of this administration because . . . . . . . . !!????


14 posted on 03/07/2013 4:41:45 PM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
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To: OKRA2012
It would all depend on who it is that defines “combat.”

Indeed. Were those at Waco engaged in combat? Ruby Ridge? If you're a victim of a bad no-knock entry and defend yourself is that 'combat'? How about if you and your commie girlfriend are busy building and planting explosives to kill cops? How about if you occupy a college admin building carrying a firearm?

15 posted on 03/07/2013 4:41:48 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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To: skeeter

Drinkin a gig gulp while driving an internal combustion automobile


16 posted on 03/07/2013 4:41:57 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: mandaladon

Holed up in your “compound” with your “arsenal” while the IRS lays siege due to you refusing to pay the Obamacare tax for not having an approved policy = “combat” = drone strikes without due process.


17 posted on 03/07/2013 4:45:32 PM PST by Monitor ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it." - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Brad's Gramma

lulz - I need to find a new hotspot.


18 posted on 03/07/2013 4:49:39 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: lyby

YES, we are.

That letter drips venom and resentment.


19 posted on 03/07/2013 4:50:43 PM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: Paine in the Neck
Were those at Waco engaged in combat? Ruby Ridge?

Excellent followup questions.
20 posted on 03/07/2013 4:51:01 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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