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Showing Original Post only (View all)For Your Consideration... U.S. Assassinations Of American Citizens.. [View all]
Via Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com: "In a speech at Northwestern University yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder provided the most detailed explanation yet for why the Obama administration believes it has the authority to secretly target U.S. citizens for execution by the CIA without even charging them with a crime, notifying them of the accusations, or affording them an opportunity to respond, instead condemning them to death without a shred of transparency or judicial oversight. The administration continues to conceal the legal memorandum it obtained to justify these killings, and, as The New York Times' Charlie Savage noted, Holder's "speech contained no footnotes or specific legal citations, and it fell far short of the level of detail contained in the Office of Legal Counsel memo...". The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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Does that include Holder who is encouraging the killing of innocent Americans?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2012
#3
What lies? Is Holder not endorsing the killing of innocent Americans?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2012
#22
I didn't know sleep was tight, let alone in need of loosening, is it some sort of psychic knot?
Dragonfli
Mar 2012
#15
How is this Irish example the same thing as preaching that it is a duty to kill Americans?
treestar
Mar 2012
#40
Awliki's father (in US) wrote to President Obama begging him not to kill his son
librechik
Mar 2012
#25