President Obama on Thursday took responsibility for the killingof an American and Italian...Hughes, Brian
On Thursday, Obama weighed in further on the 2011 drone strike. “For the record, I do not believe it would be constitutional for the government to target and kill any US citizen – with a drone, or a shotgun – without due process. Nor should any president deploy armed drones over US...
BESIDES, another mitigating factor is the counter intuitive behavior of the Commander-in-Chief of the free world, irrespective of party affiliation, when he jaunted off to play golf after such a horrific atrocity against an American citizen. Who behaves this way, if not operating from a jihadi ...
Do you believe that the President has the power to authorize lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without trial? This should not be a complicated question to answer, yet it seems Obama, Brennan and pretty much every otherlittle power consumed ...
He even ordered the killing of a U.S. citizen — Anwar Awlaki, a charismatic cleric born in New Mexico who worked for Al Qaeda in Yemen. Obama authorized the drone strike that targeted and killed him in September 2011. U.S. drones also killed at least six other Americans in attacks ai...
who worked as a financial analyst at the Elizabeth Arden Company in Connecticut before he took up arms on behalf of the Taliban. He is an American citizen who was trained by the Pakistani Taliban, and came back to the United States. Shahzad was living a middle clas...
s lone superpower. The thesis of American exceptionalism that began with John Winthrop’s (1630) “A Model of Christian Charity” in which he suggested “we shall be as a city upon a hill [and] the eyes of the world are upon us” to settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and later...
drone strike killed Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, also a U.S. citizen, and his 17-year-old cousin. [64d][64e] 1.7 The U.S. PATRIOT Act BUSH DID… The U.S. PATRIOT Act, signed into law by Bush after the September 11 attacks and widely criticized as unconstitutional, gave the ...
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‘the use of lethal force in a foreign country outside the area of active hostilities against a U.S. citizen who is a senior operational leader of al-Qa’ida or an associated force’ rather than Obama’s widerspeechon counter-terrorism on 23 May 2013 or the ‘fact sheeton policy ...