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Why Obama Thinks It's OK for Drones to Kill Americans
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[quote:smilesun:MV8yMTI5NTMwXzU0RjZGMEM=] The confidential document provides the most thorough account yet of why the president thinks extrajudicial drone strikes on citizens are okay. All hail NBC's Michael Isikoff, who has gotten his hands on a previously undisclosed Obama Administration memo concluding that, under certain circumstances, the U.S. government can kill Americans with drones. The 16-page memo, which you can read at the bottom of this post, is going to be analyzed for days by legal experts, but I encourage you to read it so that you can understand how badly President Obama has behaved, regardless of how you feel about the legal arguments. Read more http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/obamas-memo-on-killing-americans-twists-imminent-threat-like-bush/272862/ [/quote]
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The confidential document provides the most thorough account yet of why the president thinks extrajudicial drone strikes on citizens are okay.
All hail NBC's Michael Isikoff, who has gotten his hands on a previously undisclosed Obama Administration memo concluding that, under certain circumstances, the U.S. government can kill Americans with drones. The 16-page memo, which you can read at the bottom of this post, is going to be analyzed for days by legal experts, but I encourage you to read it so that you can understand how badly President Obama has behaved, regardless of how you feel about the legal arguments.
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