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Perhaps BECAUSE HE IS ALREADY IN CUSTODY! And as such does not pose an imminent threat.
See above.
Now if Anwar al-Awlaki would care to surrender to U.S. or Yemeni authorities even as a declared unlawful combatant he would be afforded some of the rights afforded by the Constitution.
Of course if you gave him his full rights as a citizen you would undoubtedly screaming up and down about protesting Awlaki being confirmed any rights under the constitution.
So why won't Yemen capture him? Why is that? Why can't we go get him? If he gets killed in a firefight so be it.
The same right to use deadly force that we give the most raw police academy graduate (and even civilians in cases of self defense) is available to our federal government.
Everything that the Bush admin did was deemed legal at the time. The Obama admin changed that when he got in. You can't go after someone if it was legal at the time. NEXT!
What do you mean "deemed legal"?
Are you saying that just because Bush received legal memos from lawyers saying that his torture of prisoners was legal that protects him from prosecution???
I'm sorry but Hitler had lawyers too and their advice to him didn't serve as a defense.
Now, now...the organization that has the authority to kill Americans is the CIA. And they don't have to tell who, what, where, and how much they were paid for it.
The CIA is banned from operating in the United States.
The same right to use deadly force that we give the most raw police academy graduate (and even civilians in cases of self defense) is available to our federal government.
Who'd have ever imagined such a thing?
One has nothing to do with the other.
This isn't about killings on the battlefield or in self defense. Nobody disputes that. It's about putting an American citizen on a list to be killed while sleeping, while driving, while speaking on the phone.
Police are not allowed to that and neither is the President.
Are you saying that just because Bush received legal memos from lawyers saying that his torture of prisoners was legal that protects him from prosecution???
I'm sorry but Hitler had lawyers too and their advice to him didn't serve as a defense.
This isn't about killings on the battlefield or in self defense. It's about putting an American citizen on a list to be killed while sleeping, while driving, while speaking on the phone.
Police are not allowed to that and neither is the President.
American citizens have something call "due process" and the US Constitution that protects them from tyrants.
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