US Attorney General Justifies Secret Assassinations of US Citizens

Eathc: United States Attorney General says the government has the right to assassinate US citizens and such actions are legal and not unconstitutional

I previously provided in-depth coverage on AG Eric Holder’s speech today justify the federal government’s secret program of carrying out assassination of US Citizens.

As the ACLU points out, these killings are done with no judicial oversight and the government refuses to even reveal process by which Americans to secret government “kill lists” that marks American Citizens for assassination

Here are the videos of Holder’s speech to watch for yourself.

If you aren’t sickened by this, I am afraid it just may take missiles blowing up your house or your neighbors house by one of the 30,000 drones that have been authorized to deployed over US skies under the same NDAA that authorizes the assassination of US citizen before you realize it is to late.

Here’ is a statement issued by the ACLU on the speech.

ACLU Comment on Eric Holder Speech on Targeted Killing Program

NEW YORK – In a speech today at Northwestern University School of Law, Attorney General Eric Holder spoke on national security issues and addressed the government’s targeted killing program.

“While the speech is a gesture towards additional transparency, it is ultimately a defense of the government’s chillingly broad claimed authority to conduct targeted killings of civilians, including American citizens, far from any battlefield without judicial review or public scrutiny,” said Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project. “Few things are as dangerous to American liberty as the proposition that the government should be able to kill citizens anywhere in the world on the basis of legal standards and evidence that are never submitted to a court, either before or after the fact. Anyone willing to trust President Obama with the power to secretly declare an American citizen an enemy of the state and order his extrajudicial killing should ask whether they would be willing to trust the next president with that dangerous power.”

The ACLU has filed a lawsuit to enforce its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking information about the targeted killing program, but the Justice Department and the CIA have responded to the request by saying they can neither confirm nor deny the existence of any records.

“The government has told the courts that its targeted killing program is so secret that even its existence can’t be acknowledged, but that proposition can no longer be taken seriously. If the attorney general can discuss the targeted killing program at a law school, then the administration can surely release the legal memos it uses to justify its claimed killing authority, and also defend its legal justifications in court,” Shamsi said. “The targeted killing program raises profound legal and moral  questions that should be subjected to public debate, and constitutional questions that should be considered by the judiciary.”

Source: ACLU

More information about the ACLU’s FOIA lawsuit is available at:

www.aclu.org/national-security/anwar-al-awlaki-foia-request

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