.
People in the US government are allowed to kill indiscriminately.
They give themselves a now semi-official "targeted killing" power.
Most authorization details are secret.
But any "senior operational leader of al-Qa’ida" may be killed.
Enemies marked to die include US citizens.
Two assassination events under Obama are known to have killed Americans.
One killed an American boy born in Denver. A separate attack killed his US-born father and an American journalist.
Anonymous clerks now decide who'll die, with no independent review.
Nobody is required to assert the 16-year old was a "senior operational leader" of a banned group. In fact, we've a history of butchering family members of enemies (link), starting with squaws & whelps of redskin savages. This kid's assassination, outside Constitutionally-guaranteed due process, is inelegantly classed as "tough shit"
People in the US government are allowed to kill indiscriminately.
They give themselves a now semi-official "targeted killing" power.
Most authorization details are secret.
But any "senior operational leader of al-Qa’ida" may be killed.
Enemies marked to die include US citizens.
Two assassination events under Obama are known to have killed Americans.
One killed an American boy born in Denver. A separate attack killed his US-born father and an American journalist.
Anonymous clerks now decide who'll die, with no independent review.
Nobody is required to assert the 16-year old was a "senior operational leader" of a banned group. In fact, we've a history of butchering family members of enemies (link), starting with squaws & whelps of redskin savages. This kid's assassination, outside Constitutionally-guaranteed due process, is inelegantly classed as "tough shit"
