Reader Bruce C. sent the article below with some good questions about our targeted killing programs. Here is the article by Evan Perez in the Wall Street Journal: Suit Challenges Reach of U.S. 'Targeted Killings' ...The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights are taking aim at what the government calls its "targeted killing" program, which mostly uses Central Intelligence Agency-operated drones against suspected terrorists. The lawsuit was filed in federal court for the District of Columbia on behalf of the father of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Islamic cleric of Yemeni descent, who is believed to be targeted for extra-judicial killing for his alleged involvement in terror plots against the U.S. The administration hasn't publicly described its deliberations about Mr. Awlaki's fate, nor how it uses the secret drone program against suspected terrorists... Read the whole article here and then let's hear what you think in the Comments. Bruce writes: ...[These are] proactive lawsuits to provoke CIA/DoD into "proving" a person is enough of a danger to warrant targeted killing. OK, maybe there ought to be some kind of review on these killings if they're not part of war (and it's a fair debate if they are war or not), but a hearing in open court with the media and others present?...When a request for wiretaps is heard, it is held in a secret intelligence court with attorneys and judges holding TS/SCI clearances. That venue seems like the proper place for these targeted killing hearings, and that's only if they are necessary... BTW, Awlaki was the model citizen who 'counseled' Major Nidal Hassan who killed 13 Americans...among other things.
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Sep 01 2010, 06:46 AM
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