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The Justice Department’s chilling
‘targeted killings’ memo

Washington Post, by James Downie

Original Article

Posted By:Dreadnought, 2/5/2013 9:35:50 PM

On Monday night, NBC News’s Michael Isikoff published a Justice Department memo justifying the “targeted killings” — without due process — of U.S. citizens who are leaders in al-Qaeda or “associated forces” but are “outside the area of hostile activities,” such as Afghanistan. The document is based on a still-classified memo on targeted killings of U.S. citizens prepared by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. The summary memo is a chilling document, full of twisted definitions, gaping loopholes and hints that the White House still isn’t sharing its full justification for killing citizens

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: mitzi, 2/5/2013 9:40:41 PM     (No. 9160733)

The WH is probably going to start (continue??) bombing US embassies - targeting their own State Dept. employees.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Keekng, 2/5/2013 9:52:29 PM     (No. 9160751)

Interesting. This stuff was all criminally illegal in previous administrations.....


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: iamtinman, 2/5/2013 10:13:59 PM     (No. 9160781)

Is the Washington Post finally starting to get that Barack Obama is not what they thought he was. The man is a megalomanic psychopath who is willing to destroy this country in a vain attempt to set up a form of government that has proven time and time again not to work!

Impeach him now, remove him from office and save this country from his insane plans!


Reply 4 - Posted by: jimK1, 2/5/2013 10:18:58 PM     (No. 9160789)

When you have criminals running the White House and DOJ, how can anything be criminal?


Reply 5 - Posted by: Nimby, 2/5/2013 10:57:06 PM     (No. 9160843)

So WaPo! What the bleep are you going to do about it?


Reply 6 - Posted by: horacer, 2/5/2013 11:08:05 PM     (No. 9160853)

Incredible. The law is what we say it is and there´s no appropriate forum for review.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Spidey, 2/6/2013 5:16:19 AM     (No. 9161008)

Obama´s unconstitutional acts aren´t subject to judicial review and even if they were,they´d wind up on the desk of Sotomayor or Kagan,two loyal Obama hacks.

There can´t be more than a small handful of Americans working with alqueda,at least on the ground in other countries. However I´ll bet there´s quite a few working with alqueda and other radical splinter groups in the state dept,including Hillary before she left.

The state dept. is replete with career america haters who have gotten a golden opportunity to undermine the country with obama in charge.

I think the whole wikileaks operation was done with the cooperation of high ranking state dept. people hoping to expose dirt on something Bush did wrong. After pouring through countless cables,they couldn´t find anything and wikileaks became old news.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Grambo, 2/6/2013 7:46:33 AM     (No. 9161137)

Haven’t we heard this “no controlling authority” somewhere before?


Reply 9 - Posted by: Rusino, 2/6/2013 7:54:20 AM     (No. 9161164)

There is nothing silent about what is being done. The problem is, a majority of The. American Electorate and those Elected are, Blind, Dumb and DEAF!


Reply 10 - Posted by: stablemoney, 2/6/2013 8:18:13 AM     (No. 9161223)

I consider it an act of war so have no problem with it. Obama and his administration are at war and are hypocrites for not saying so.


Reply 11 - Posted by: mc squared, 2/6/2013 9:28:10 AM     (No. 9161397)

Poster #1 makes a point.

Is the non-response and the subsequent lack of interest in the Benghazi issue because it´s another type of rogue ´Fast & Furious´ action in the middle east?


Reply 12 - Posted by: dolphin, 2/6/2013 9:32:31 AM     (No. 9161407)

Why are enemy combatants still citizens?


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Coy860, 2/6/2013 9:37:06 AM     (No. 9161418)

“associated forces” but are “outside the area of hostile activities,”
So, this could mean a TEA party meeting, or a rally of Oath Keepers or even the Salvation ARMY ?
Overly broad..proof that this government cannot be trusted.


Reply 14 - Posted by: chicodon, 2/6/2013 11:07:28 AM     (No. 9161688)

Makes Benghazi a little clearer. They were expendable. This regime is on the verge of ruthlessness and it will be lethal and legal.


Reply 15 - Posted by: AutumnJoy, 2/6/2013 12:34:32 PM     (No. 9161920)

I am beginning to have a really sick feeling that the psychopath in the WH might actually get off on killing people. I will never, ever, forget the night of the 2008 election when the creep summarily dismissed his wife and children from the stage so he could stand--ALONE--and bask in THE GLORY THAT IS BARACK OBAMA, before his adoring minions. After that, isn´t having complete carte blance to kill whomever you want just the logical next step? Talk about "malignant narcissism"! God help us all.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Donna M, 2/6/2013 2:23:33 PM     (No. 9162111)

If you put any value on Ulsterman and the ´White House Insider´, Tin Pot (love that term!) gets off on watching the vids of the drone kills, especially when women and children are snuffed. And the drones get smaller and smaller...

Sorry if I sound paranoid, but to me it´s only a matter of time before certain dissenters and criticizers of the current regime in the US and internationally mysteriously turn up dead on short walks for ice cream, or walking alongside mysteriously exploded cars or post boxes. If I were Ted Cruz or Rand Paul, I´d be most cautious indeed.


Reply 17 - Posted by: kennedylaw, 2/6/2013 2:45:03 PM     (No. 9162149)

It is o.k. to assassinate U.S. citizens, just don´t water board terrorists.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: woodenleg, 2/6/2013 2:58:32 PM     (No. 9162179)

Thanks to the Lucianne.com monitors for the new phrase..."Quaintly Stalinesque"...I will be using it.


Reply 19 - Posted by: steveracer, 2/6/2013 3:19:46 PM     (No. 9162215)

You say you want a revolution Well you know We all want to change the world You tell me that its evolution Well you know You better free your mind instead (Beatles)


Reply 20 - Posted by: rc1776, 2/6/2013 3:42:46 PM     (No. 9162273)

Here comes the hackers.
Submit your requests early.


Reply 21 - Posted by: Philipsonh, 2/6/2013 6:20:10 PM     (No. 9162495)

These actions are illegal and Unconstitutional. Nothing more
needs to be said, except murder
should be reason for impeachment.
In my opinion.


Reply 22 - Posted by: fayebeck, 2/6/2013 9:01:14 PM     (No. 9162665)

I would rather NUKE the mideast into the stone age, BUT for the life of me I can´t get too concerned about killing American "citizens" with the names Ahmed, Hussein or Khalid....Kill ´em anyway you can.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: Libertygal, 2/6/2013 11:42:01 PM     (No. 9162826)

I have a question for you all to quietly consider to yourselves.

You all should know by now that NBC is amongst the besf known state run media, it´s the top of the list. WaPo runs in a close second.

Do you honestly think for a moment that NBC or WaPo would betray Dear Leader and leak anything?

Think carefully before you answer.

It was a planned release. Now. Ask yourselves, why? Why would Droner in Cheif leak on himself? Read between the lines.

Fear and control. More divide and conquer. The left and progressives whine, "If you are doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear."

Really? Prove it. Because, from where the sane half or so of this country stands, there are no longer any rules, and everything is upside down. What was wrong now seems right, and what was right now makes a civilian a terrorist.

Now. Was it a leak? No. It was a planned assault on our senses. It worked.



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