But on February 4, 2010, New York Daily News reported that al-Awlaki was “now on a targeting list signed off on by the Obama administration”.[194]
On April 6, The New York Times also reported that President Obama had authorized the targeted killing of al-Awlaki.[18] The CIA and the U.S. military both maintain lists of terrorists linked to al-Qaeda and its affiliates who are approved for capture or killing.[18] Because he is a U.S. citizen, his inclusion on those lists was approved by the National Security Council.[18] U.S. officials said it is extremely rare, if not unprecedented, for an American to be approved for targeted killing.[18] The New York Times reported that international law allows the use of lethal force against people who pose an imminent threat to a country, and U.S. officials said that was the standard used in adding names to the target list.[18] In addition, Congress approved the use of military force against al-Qaeda after 9/11.[18] People on the target list are considered military enemies of the U.S., and therefore not subject to a ban on political assassinations approved by former President Gerald Ford.[195] Al-Awlaki’s tribe wrote, “We warn against cooperating with America to kill Sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki. We will not stand by idly and watchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Aw…
Is it a slowness to grasp what a death order means or just upset that the Democrat President got another terrorist?
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Why Didn’t Republicans Argue When Anwar Was Put On The Hit List? Why Wait Until He Id Dead?
Posted on October 22, 2011.
I was busy that day
Because with Obama it doesn’t matter how much you protest.
-look at Libya. He didn’t even ask until after the fact. And now look at Uganda, again he didn’t even ask.
Can either of those fulfill these requirements;
The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.
Well?
Congress approved the use of military force against al-Qaeda after 9/11….. They never knew al-Awlaki a American citizen specifically was going to be assassinated.
No one of any stripe said anything. It just happened and then it was reported. Then it was time to make political hay. All smoke and mirrors to dazzle the sheeple anyway.
Many people expressed their concern about the president putting a hit out on people, that must have been the day you were under your rock.
Personally, when I hear any President of the United States refer to a “hit list” I assume (or did up until this administration) they were using hyperbole. This is the most murderous Nobel Peace Prize winner since Yasser Arafat
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It’s not stupidity or inability to grasp the facts at work with them. It’s how to spin it to their advantage politically. President Obama has proved to be a master at targeting the leaders of terrorist groups and taking them out with no loss of American lives. The gop has always said (endlessly) that American is safer if they are in office. Really?? The facts have proved them wrong.
It must be embarrassing so they now make wimpy claims that 1) terrorist leaders should have been killed sooner, 2) they should have been killed in a different way, or 3) they shouldn’t have been killed at all. Geez!!
btw, if an American citizen is also a terrorist then he should be subject to the treatment authorized for any other terrorist. If we had actionable intelligence on the American who blew up the Murrah bldg. in Oklahoma City before he killed all those people, then we would have taken him out too– so how is Al-Awlaki different?
They supported this terrorist for some reason
I did. I wrote my Democrat Congressman and my Republican Senator. It is an Executive decision, in line with a dictator that was instituted with Bush and continued with 0bama This is unconstitutional. He was denied his due process as a citizen regardless of his politics.