Jun 5, 2012

Obama's Secret Kill List "The Most Radical Power a Government Can Seize"

By Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald / nationofchange.org
Obama's Secret Kill List "The Most Radical Power a Government Can Seize"

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."

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