You may be right that my understanding of the due process clause is confused. It's been over a decade since I went to law school and I'm getting up in the years

You may be right that my understanding of the due process clause is confused. It's been over a decade since I went to law school and I'm getting up in the years, so it wouldn't be completely surprising. However, I think you miss the point of my response in context of the comment I was responding to. The point of my comment was that our government has taken a very fluid approach to the law to fit its needs versus American citizens/non-citizens. If one feels a certain comfort that the law will protect him/her in the course of some action that seems fully protected by the law today, you might be in for a rude awakening tomorrow. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/09/obama-assassinates-us-citizen http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/09/obama-assassin... http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-team-obama-justifies-the-killing-of-a-16-year-old-american/264028/ http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-team... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)