Obama Administration To Reveal Justification For Drone Strikes On U.S. Citizens

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

by NEDRA PICKLER
Posted: 05/20/2014 5:37 pm EDT Updated: 44 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — On the eve of a critical Senate vote and under court order, the Obama administration signaled it will publicly reveal a secret memo describing its legal justification for using drones to kill U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism overseas.

Two administration officials told The Associated Press that the Justice Department has decided not to appeal a Court of Appeals ruling requiring disclosure of a redacted version of the memo under the Freedom of Information Act. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.

The decision to release the documents comes as the Senate is to vote Wednesday on advancing President Barack Obama's nomination of the memo's author, Harvard professor and former Justice Department official David Barron, to sit on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., had vowed to fight Barron's confirmation, and some Democratic senators were calling for the memo's public release before a final vote.

Wednesday's expected procedural vote would allow the Senate to move ahead with a final vote on Barron on Thursday. "I think we'll be OK," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said earlier Tuesday.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/20/obama-drone-strikes_n_5360746.html

[Demeter]

1. I hope that indignation and derisive laughter ring out across the USA

and I hope they put thumbs down on the idiot who wrote it. Then they can forbid any such shenanigans ever happening again.

We do not need any more John Yoos, John Mitchells, or other corrupt lawyers in government. We need to get rid of the ones that are there already, right up to Roberts, Thomas and Scalia at the top of the pile.

[ballyhoo]

2. I didn't even understand the post. But I'll side

with you from having read your posts and positions.

[Demeter]

3. Well, you see, there was this American citizen (actually, 4 to date that we know of)

who went home to a moslem country to visit or whatever. And the NSA/CIA/USA decided they didn't like what he was doing over there, so the Obama Administration went to this secret FISA court, which was secretly appointed by Supreme Court Justice Roberts, and asked for permission to kill him dead...without trial or any kind of "due process" as is the right of any US citizen under our Constitution. With drones. And they did.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-were-the-4-us-citizens-killed-in-drone-strikes/

[ballyhoo]

11. I was afraid you would say that, Demeter. Thanks. We

are not even America anymore.

[uhnope]

13. yeah but you wish we were Russia, anyway, right?

After all your racist slurs against the Roma, I'm surprised you're still around. But please go on about your vision of America, which I guess does not include Roma, free press or even democracy anyway.

[ballyhoo]

15. Vision of America? Non sequitur now.

As you were. I'm still around. I mainly serve on juries at Discussionist, which is a great board.

[uhnope]

16. non sequitur? How can you lament US policies while praising Russia & making racist comments

You can't answer that, I guess

[ballyhoo]

17. Because in all aspects of our protracted discussions, Russia

was correct in their actions, and now are going to reap US taxpayer dollars for oil used by Ukraine. Your continued insistence that that woman's meddling in Kieve did not lead to a gigantic disaster was your mistake. Now with BRICS and the Erasian spread of petro-dollars minus the dollar, all will change with the Russians in charge of their destiny and others as well.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. This will never fly. They haven't shown they have the system perfected to isolate the target,

which is to say that any American near the intended target is at risk. Common sense says that attacking Americans overseas, and hitting innocent victims, will only create the opportunity for domestic terror that never existed before. Blowback repercussions, is what I see.

[zeemike]

5. Looks like they are drawing back the curtain.

and removing the scenery so we can see the brick wall at the back of the stage.

And once it is revealed we will be told ..."see it is all perfectly leagal"...just like the spying and all that stuff.
The last bits of the constitution are being removed right before our eyes.

[Ed Suspicious]

6. The idea that our country would fly drones to far away countries to kill Americans and whoever else

happens to get in the way disgusts me to my core. Sickens me.

[ballyhoo]

18. Me too. Makes it hard to sleep. I simply cannot

believe what is happening.

[quadrature]

7. the reasoning behind this is ...

... wartime conditions apply ** ...

or not, please enlighten me.

**wartime conditions allow kill-on-sight,
on top of that, since the enemy does not
wear a uniform, anything goes

[GeorgeGist]

19. What war?

[quadrature]

20. that would be the so-called 'war on terror', '''

(not said by me, other say that)

normal law during peacetime,
would be that wanted fugitives must
be given a chance to surrender
before they are bumped off.

during wartime, enemy combatants,
for the most part,
can be fired upon without warning.

[L0oniX]

8. This is what happens to democracy when you don't jail war criminals and banksters.

[PSPS]

9. I hope I live to see the day when we don't have a war criminal for a president.

[George II]

10. What a total crock of shit and extreme FICTION!

[Psephos]

12. This should be good.

NOT.

[pffshht]

14. That's easy...

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