The biggest reason why President Bush will not be prosecuted for torture

[KingCharlemagne]

91. More problematic along that same spectrum would be the case of al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son who,

IIRC, was killed by a drone missile in a completely different drone attack a couple mForonths later (in Yemen?).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

For commentary:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/23/obama-anwar-al-awlaki-son_n_3141688.html

That said, still not totally conceding your point, since al-Awlaki pere was a designated enemy combatant and so no longer entitled to full protections of due process accorded U.S. citizen-civilians under the Constitution. Was Kahn deliberately targeted or was he proverbial 'collateral damage'?

Please don't misunderstand me. I have grave moral reservations about the use of drones to execute people extra-judicially. Were I President, I probably would issue an EO to the military and CIA forbidding their use. But moral qualms and legal niceties are too entirely different realms.

I do take your point, though, that President Obama's political enemies would probably exploit al-Awlaki's death for any advantage they thought it might provide, conveniently ignoring the salient fact that Bush also authorized drone strikes (although not on Cameraman citizens to my knowledge).