President Barack Obama has the legal authority to unleash deadly force—such as
drone strikes—against Americans on U.S. soil without first putting them on
trial, Attorney General Eric
Holder wrote in a letter released Tuesday.
But Holder, writing to Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, underlined that
Obama “has no intention” of targeting his fellow citizens with unmanned aerial
vehicles and would do so only if facing “an extraordinary circumstance.”Paul had asked the Obama administration on Feb. 20 whether 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." On Tuesday, he denounced Holder's response as “frightening” and “an affront to the Constitutional due process rights of all Americans.”
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But he won't use this power...
Stay safe.
would do so only if facing “an extraordinary circumstance.”
ReplyDeleteLike anyone he doesn't like.
Nothing says freedom and liberty like Extra judicial killings!
ReplyDelete“an extraordinary circumstance.”
ReplyDeleteas in a 7 year old eating a pastry into the shape of a gun??