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<blockquote data-quote="chuter" data-source="post: 2093994" data-attributes="member: 13693"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/rare-look-obama-decides-send-drones-kill-americans-031832960.html" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/rare-look-obama-decides-send-drones-kill-americans-031832960.html</a>&quot;.....The memo suggests that anyone who &quot;present<s> an &#039;imminent&#039; threat of violent attack against the United States&quot; qualifies for assassination &quot;a lawful killing in self defense,&quot; but that &quot;does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future.&quot; In other words, an &quot;informed, high-level&quot; official can order the killing of any American citizen that was &quot;recently&quot; involved in threatening &quot;activities.&quot; As Isikoff points out, the memo fails to define both of those terms......&quot;</s><s></s><s>Sounds a little scary to me.</s></blockquote>

[QUOTE="chuter, post: 2093994, member: 13693"] [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/rare-look-obama-decides-send-drones-kill-americans-031832960.html"]http://news.yahoo.com/rare-look-obama-decides-send-drones-kill-americans-031832960.html[/URL] ".....The memo suggests that anyone who "present[s] an 'imminent' threat of violent attack against the United States" qualifies for assassination "a lawful killing in self defense," but that "does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future." In other words, an "informed, high-level" official can order the killing of any American citizen that was "recently" involved in threatening "activities." As Isikoff points out, the memo fails to define both of those terms......" Sounds a little scary to me.[/s] [/QUOTE]

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