US Government (CIA) To Kill US Citizen - Terrorist

[ImminentDanger]

Full Story Here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/wo...awlaki.html?hp

U.S. Approval of Killing of Cleric Causes Unease
By SCOTT SHANE
Published: May 13, 2010

"WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s decision to authorize the killing by the Central Intelligence Agency of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes, a mainstay of the campaign against terrorism."

"Most significantly, he is an American, born in New Mexico, arguably protected by the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee not to be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” In a traditional war, anyone allied with the enemy, regardless of citizenship, is a legitimate target; German-Americans who fought with the Nazis in World War II were given no special treatment."


Here is a juncture where one must understand THE COST OF FREEDOM....

If he is plotting against the US, charge him with treason, convict him, and sentence him to death.....


BUT DUE PROCESS - IS DUE! ! ! ! TO PROTECT ALL CITIZENS! ! ! ! !


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[jcabin]

http://forum.pafoa.org/political-was...n-citizen.html

[tsafa]

I would need to know more facts before I condemn this. Did he poses an imminent threat? I don't know. How strong is the evidence against him? I don't know yet either. Was there a risk that there might not be a future opportunity if they delayed? Something to consider.

If the president that ordered this was George Bush, most of us would have given Bush the benefit of the doubt. I don't particularly like Obaman, but any time he comes down on anyone linked to Al Queda, I am inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt... just like I would if he was a Republican. I don't want to be one of those people who condemns Obama for everything he does automatically. Quite honestly I doubt he actually would have the balls for something like this, I'm thinking that it was people working around him that got it done.

The story does not say if they succeeded... and that would be stupid if they did not. In that case they would have both the bad press and a terrorist on the loose.

[JayBell]

as noted above, already being discussed elsewhere.

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