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Not at all accurate. During the Obama administration the groundwork was laid for the extrajudicial execution of American citizens https://www.theguardian.com/w
by sidewndr46 4y ago
Not at all accurate. During the Obama administration the groundwork was laid for the extrajudicial execution of American citizens
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/us-justification-drone-killing-american-citizen-awlaki https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/us-justificati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awla...
Anyone deemed to be "part of the forces of an enemy" may be targeted.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoHasn't this always been the case? I assume if you were after a foreign general and there are some American mercenaries in the same building well "I guess they're out of luck"; still gonna bomb the complex.
- sidewndr46 4y agoHistorically the case for American's citizens has been a capture or kill doctrine. It's fine if in the midst of a capture, they happen to be killed. Now the government has the explicit authority to kill citizens.