Are you starting to see just how bad it really is yet -
American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.The Real Effect
There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House's National Security Council, several current and former officials said. Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate.
The panel was behind the decision to add Awlaki, a U.S.-born militant preacher with alleged al Qaeda connections, to the target list. He was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen late last month.
The role of the president in ordering or ratifying a decision to target a citizen is fuzzy. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to discuss anything about the process.
Note the bold print -
- Regardless of how one thinks about the man, Awlaki is ALLEGED to be a terrorist, that is someone, somewhere pointed a finger at him. This matter has not been heard in a court of law.
- A secret panel declares the guy a menace and then orders him dead. There are no rules checking this process and all decisions are secret.
- There is no law that authorizes this. These actions are extra-judicial.
- The President of the United States is probably involved.
Let's reduce it even further. We as a nation are upset that our 3,000 citizens were murdered without a trial and yet our brilliant solution is to formally institutionalize the process in secretive kill panels? Doesn't this fly in the face of what we are supposedly outraged about?!?
Evil. Pure and simple.
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