Obama's
Secret Kill List
31
May, 2012
The
New York Times revealed this week that President Obama personally
oversees a "secret kill list" containing the names and
photos of individuals targeted for assassination in the U.S. drone
war.
According
to the Times, Obama signs off on every targeted killing in Yemen and
Somalia and the more complex or risky strikes in Pakistan.
Individuals on the list include U.S. citizens, as well teenage girls
as young as 17 years old.
"The President of
the United States believes he has the power to order people killed --
in total secrecy, without any due process, without transparency or
oversight of any kind," says Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional
law attorney and political and legal blogger for Salon.com. "I
really do believe it's literally the most radical power that a
government and president can seize, and yet the Obama administration
has seized [it] and exercised it aggressively with little
controversy."
-
DemocracyNow.org
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