Government Leadership Approved Murder of Americans? New York TImes Op-Ed
The Liberator Online
Volume 18, No. 2 January 24, 2013
“President Obama has refused to tell Congress or the American people why he believes the Constitution gives, or fails to deny, him the authority to secretly target and kill American citizens who he suspects are involved in terrorist activities overseas. So far he has killed three that we know of.
“Presidents had never before, to our knowledge, targeted specific Americans for military strikes. …Oddly, under current law, Congress and the courts are involved when presidents eavesdrop on Americans, detain them or harshly interrogate them -- but not when they kill them.” -
- Vicki Divol, former general counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and former deputy legal adviser to the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, “Who Says You Can Kill Americans, Mr. President?,”
New York Times op-ed, January 16, 2013.
Volume 18, No. 2
“President Obama has refused to tell Congress or the American people why he believes the Constitution gives, or fails to deny, him the authority to secretly target and kill American citizens who he suspects are involved in terrorist activities overseas. So far he has killed three that we know of.
“Presidents had never before, to our knowledge, targeted specific Americans for military strikes. …Oddly, under current law, Congress and the courts are involved when presidents eavesdrop on Americans, detain them or harshly interrogate them -- but not when they kill them.” -
- Vicki Divol, former general counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and former deputy legal adviser to the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, “Who Says You Can Kill Americans, Mr. President?,”
New York Times op-ed, January 16, 2013.
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