CIA Has Program to Assassinate USA Citizens
By Thomas R. Eddlem
The you.S. Central Intelligence Agency has maintained an assassination list of USA Citizens for the last eight year and has actually assassinated Americans, according to January 27 Washington Post story. Ref. Source 3
I have not read the intricate details but you better have no mistakes. What about the involvement of the judicial system in this or has the US turned a soft police state?
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Can Obama Assassinate Americans?
By Nat Hentoff
The executive branch alone decides who shall die instantly. And there are no defense attorneys to raise objections, even when an American citizen is marked for oblivion. Ref. Source 5
Is the CIA Assassination Order of a US Citizen Legal?
US officials have confirmed a Yemen-based Muslim cleric has become the first US citizen added to a CIA list of targets for capture or killing. Anwar al-Awlaki is a US-born cleric accused of having ties to the failed Christmas Day airline bombing and the shooting at Fort Hood. Many legal experts have questioned the legality of the assassination order under US and international law. We speak with Philip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions. Ref. Source 5
US Corporate Media Downplays Pentagon's Special Commando Assassination Unit
By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff
The New York Times, Washington Post, and most other newspapers in the US are censoring or under-reporting the WikiLeaks documents that show US Task Force 373 (TF 373) is an out-of-control assassination unit responsible for the deaths of many hundreds of civilians in Afghanistan. Ref. Source 6
Dennis Kucinich Makes a Serious Push to Ban Govt. Assassinations of US Citizens
By Jeremy Scahill
Kucinich is putting his money where his mouth is. He just announced he has introduced legislation to "prohibit the extrajudicial killing of United States citizens." Ref. Source 4
Why should the USA be any different than the rest of the world. Everyone knows that the governments of this world take out people who they view as threatening to the governments power. To actually know that the USA does this to does not surprise me one bit. I just wonder where I am on that list.
New Poll Finds 57 Percent of Americans Think Obama's Assassination Program Is Unconstitutional:
A new Reason-Rupe poll finds that a majority of Americans think President Obama's targeted killing program, which famously allowed the CIA to assassinate an American-born Muslim cleric living in Yemen as well has his American-born teenage son, to be unconstitutional. Ref. Source 9