Obama Administration Says President Can Use Lethal Force Against Americans on US Soil

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172. I'm all for the coast guard using drones for such purposes (patrol)

but there's no reason to believe that this is all they could be used for, and again, posse comitatus does not apply to them, so if they were to be the organization that executed a drone strike, you can throw that protection out the window.

What is this?

"But, their use of drones has no implications for the assassination of American citizens inside the United States, which is forbidden by the Constitution and posse comitatus."

What are we talking about? The administration has just asserted the authority to do specifically what you say the constitution forbids, to kill American citizens inside the United States. Holder just did exactly this. Yes, he talked about how it's a hypothetical, how there would have to be "extraordinary circumstances" for them to do it and gave a "catastrophic attack" as one of those, but fuck all that, they just asserted the authority to do it, without any due process, on the president's word that it is necessary.

I'm bothered by it and you're defending it. At least until I read this statement, where now you seem to be denying it.