[BartSimpson]

http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-secur ... al-process

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Today in Yemen, U.S. air strikes killed American citizen Anwar Al-Aulaqi. Al-Aulaqi has never been charged with a crime. Last year, the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights represented Al-Aulaqi's father in a lawsuit challenging the government's asserted authority to carry out "targeted killings" of U.S. citizens located far from any armed conflict zone. We argued that such killings violate the Constitution and international law, but the case was dismissed in federal court last December.

In response to today's killing of Al-Aulaqi, ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said:

The targeted killing program violates both U.S. and international law. As we've seen today, this is a program under which American citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government without judicial process, and on the basis of standards and evidence that are kept secret not just from the public but from the courts. The government's authority to use lethal force against its own citizens should be limited to circumstances in which the threat to life is concrete, specific, and imminent. It is a mistake to invest the President — any President — with the unreviewable power to kill any American whom he deems to present a threat to the country.

In a hearing before a federal court last November, government lawyers argued the president should have unreviewable authority to kill Americans he has unilaterally determined to pose a threat. As National Security Project Litigation Director Ben Wizner added today: "If the Constitution means anything, it surely means that the President does not have unreviewable authority to summarily execute any American whom he concludes is an enemy of the state."

The ACLU is attacking Obama.

[Zipperfish]

oops--Musharraf and Zardari

[GreenTiger]

martin14 martin14:

Regina Regina:

What a shame.......pass the peanuts.

mmmmmmmmmmmm...pork rinds better

No, dump the pork rinds into the ditch that you shove his dead ass into and cheat him out of his 72 virgins.

[Freakinoldguy]

I guess Cliffie Olson's got a new playmate................. in hell.

[BRAH]

That would be a cool job..

[BRAH]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/aclu-lens-american-citizen-anwar-al-aulaqi-killed-without-judicial-process

$1:

Today in Yemen, U.S. air strikes killed American citizen Anwar Al-Aulaqi. Al-Aulaqi has never been charged with a crime. Last year, the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights represented Al-Aulaqi's father in a lawsuit challenging the government's asserted authority to carry out "targeted killings" of U.S. citizens located far from any armed conflict zone. We argued that such killings violate the Constitution and international law, but the case was dismissed in federal court last December.

In response to today's killing of Al-Aulaqi, ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said:

The targeted killing program violates both U.S. and international law. As we've seen today, this is a program under which American citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government without judicial process, and on the basis of standards and evidence that are kept secret not just from the public but from the courts. The government's authority to use lethal force against its own citizens should be limited to circumstances in which the threat to life is concrete, specific, and imminent. It is a mistake to invest the President — any President — with the unreviewable power to kill any American whom he deems to present a threat to the country.

In a hearing before a federal court last November, government lawyers argued the president should have unreviewable authority to kill Americans he has unilaterally determined to pose a threat. As National Security Project Litigation Director Ben Wizner added today: "If the Constitution means anything, it surely means that the President does not have unreviewable authority to summarily execute any American whom he concludes is an enemy of the state."

The ACLU is attacking Obama.

The ACLU is a <censored> joke.

[Scape]

The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality

[desertdude]

Scape Scape:

The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality

Hmmm...now thats food for thought.

[GreenTiger]

Scape Scape:

The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality

In the case of this pig fucker I don't feel bad about making this exception.

[Freakinoldguy]

So, I guess to keep things legal. In the future they should hold trials in "absentia" and then off the treasonous bastards.

[Bacardi4206]

BRAH BRAH:

That would be a cool job..

I got that job everyday, playing BF2 and waiting for BF3 to come out. Joystick in one hand, keyboard in the other. Waiting for some bad guy to show his face so I can launch a missle at him. Ah, the good gaming days.

[martin14]

Scape Scape:

The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality

Goes to show Obama and his gang don't really give a shit about the Constitution.



Funny how so many howled and bleated at Bush for eavesdropping or detaining people,

but now that Obama is killing them, they all say............... nothing.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

martin14 martin14:

Scape Scape:

The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality

Goes to show Obama and his gang don't really give a shit about the Constitution.



Funny how so many howled and bleated at Bush for eavesdropping or detaining people,

but now that Obama is killing them, they all say............... nothing.

Funny how some that cheer whenever some other al quaeda scumbags get offed are all concerned about due process cuz this one was a US citizen. I could see being concerned about it if he was still in the US but he was in Yemen. Not exactly a US friendly country IIRC.

Tough shit for al-awlaki!

[EyeBrock]

andyt andyt:

Thanos Thanos:

Wow. Killed by a US drone too. That Barack HUSSEIN Obama is sure weak on terror, isn't he?

If he was a true patriot, he'd be killing these guys with his own hands, just like Bush and Cheney stepped up during their country's hour of need in Vietnam.

Those in glass houses andy.

[GreenTiger]

I wonder why Adam Gadahn is keeping a low profile these days.