U.S. to offer legal backing for "targeted killing": source

[dipsydoodle]

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Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday plans to outline how U.S. laws empower the government to kill Americans overseas who engage in terrorism against their home country, a source familiar with the matter said, months after a drone strike killed a U.S.-born cleric who plotted attacks from Yemen.

Civil liberties groups have been pressuring the administration to offer justification for what has been described as a top-secret "targeted kill" program in which Americans who have joined al Qaeda or other militants are deemed legitimate targets to be killed overseas.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/05/us-usa-security-americans-idUSTRE82402420120305

[tk2kewl]

1. did Holder hire back John Yoo

nt

[Hugabear]

2. Legal justification? Because we fucking can.

That seems to be the "legal justification" for much of the US actions.

Invade Iraq? Because we fucking can.

Topple foreign governments? Because we fucking can.

[maddezmom]

3. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101467857