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Tom Junod on the new ACLU/CCR lawsuit brought today against Obama’s assassination program
Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was an innocent whose death has never been acknowledged by Obama administration. Samir Khan was a self-described traitor who was never a vetted entry on an American kill list but who “deserved to die,” in the chilling post-mortem provided by Senator Harry Reid. Anwar al-Awlaki, however, was, after Osama bin Laden, the most notorious of America’s enemies — and the troubling fact of his American citizenship is what necessitated the Obama administration’s argument that the deliberations carried out within the executive branch over the question of whether an American citizen could be killed without “judicial process” count as due process. His infamy made him the poster boy for the Lethal Presidency — the poster boy for the Obama administration’s assertion that virtually all the deaths it has ordered in the name of saving American lives are rightful ones.
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Junod writes, “[T]he Obama administration has gone to great lengths to both justify and to keep secret — the killings that, indeed, serve as the basis of the Lethal Presidency.” This is very important.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7d5e2Loma1qamcl6o1_500.jpg)
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Tom Junod on the new ACLU/CCR lawsuit brought today against Obama’s assassination program
Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was an innocent whose death has never been acknowledged by Obama administration. Samir Khan was a self-described traitor who was never a vetted entry on an American kill list but who “deserved to die,” in the chilling post-mortem provided by Senator Harry Reid. Anwar al-Awlaki, however, was, after Osama bin Laden, the most notorious of America’s enemies — and the troubling fact of his American citizenship is what necessitated the Obama administration’s argument that the deliberations carried out within the executive branch over the question of whether an American citizen could be killed without “judicial process” count as due process. His infamy made him the poster boy for the Lethal Presidency — the poster boy for the Obama administration’s assertion that virtually all the deaths it has ordered in the name of saving American lives are rightful ones.
Junod writes, “[T]he Obama administration has gone to great lengths to both justify and to keep secret — the killings that, indeed, serve as the basis of the Lethal Presidency.” This is very important.
