Glen Greenwald has a major piece in Salon this morning on Obama’s “sentencing” of an American as a Muslim Terrorist and authorizing his murder without trial… This is unacceptable policy to me and, I hope, to the rest of America.
We need to call on Obama to reject this idea… now.
Read all of Glen’s article after this clip:
| Today, both The New York Times and The Washington Post confirm that the Obama White House has now expressly authorized the CIA to kill al-Alwaki no matter where he is found, no matter his distance from a battlefield. I wrote at length about the extreme dangers and lawlessness of allowing the Executive Branch the power to murder U.S. citizens far away from a battlefield (i.e., while they’re sleeping, at home, with their children, etc.) and with no due process of any kind. I won’t repeat those arguments — they’re here and here — but I do want to highlight how unbelievably Orwellian and tyrannical this is in light of these new articles today. |
| No due process is accorded. No charges or trials are necessary. No evidence is offered, nor any opportunity for him to deny these accusations (which he has done vehemently through his family). None of that. |
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I was pretty horrified by this, too, but have we actually heard yet from the White House? Is this really what he said or what he meant? Glenn Greenwald is no fan of Obama’s so I take what he says with a grain of salt.
I want to hear it from the horse’s mouth. Because it’s a reckless, appalling statement that needs to be addressed.
I wish the NY Times and the Washington Post articles didn’t back up the allegations so well. I can’t imagine the National Security Council doing anything the President doesn’t know about.