Drone Targeting American Citizens

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/10/politics/us-killing-americans/?c=&page=0

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-79246512/

Justice Department lawyers are reviewing the evidence and have not yet determined whether President Obama should consider adding the American,whose identity was not disclosed,to the list of terrorism suspects who are hunted and killed overseas by drones,airstrikes or military raids.

The process has been complicated by the suspect’s U.S. citizenship and new criteria for the targeted killing of Americans,officials said.

Under guidelines approved by Obama in May,a potential target must pose “a continuing,imminent threat to U.S. persons.” Americans proposed for the so-called kill list also are entitled to legal due process, which the administration has interpreted to mean a review by the Justice Department.

Mieke Eoyang,director of national security at Third Way,a centrist Democratic think tank,said the U.S. government should publicly warn Americans if they are targeted.

“When you are going to take steps that are final and there is no appeal, you have to give people a chance to say,‘You got the wrong guy. I’m not really as bad as you think,’” she said. “If you’re going to kill somebody, you have to make your case.”

U.S. drones have killed four Americans since 2009,but only one,Anwar Awlaki,was specifically targeted. Awlaki,who was born in New Mexico,was killed in Yemen in 2011.

The three others were Samir Khan,who was killed with Awlaki; Awlaki’s 16-year-old son,Abdulrahman,who was killed in Yemen two weeks later;and Jude Kenan Mohammad,who was killed in late 2011 in Pakistan’s tribal area.

Good. If you are plotting on Americans then if we get you before u get us all the better

Hey is this Obummers fault also ? That dude do get around...

this is very scary ground we are treading. today its these far away terrorist over seas who happen to be us citizens by what ever means. tomorrow its us.

I was amazed at what passes for due process today... apparently it is a simple review by the doj.