Thread: Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans

According to an unclassified Department of Justice white paper released by NBC News, the U.S. government can kill Americans without charge or trial or even “clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future” as part of the highly controversial drone assassination program.

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Someone Just Leaked Obama's Rules for Assassinating American Citizens



Mike Riggs | Feb. 4, 2013

For over a year now journalists, civil liberties advocates, and members of Congress have been asking the Obama administration to release internal memoranda from the Office of Legal Counsel justifying Obama's targeted killing program. While the White House continues to deny that such memos exist, NBC is reporting that it has acquired the next best thing: A secretish 16-page white paper from the Department of Justice that was provided to select members of the Senate last June.

Full article: reason.com/blog/2013/02/04/someone-just-leaked-obamas-rules-for-ass