

Top White House official comes clean about covert drone strikes



I. Down the Rabbit Hole





Reaper drones


II. Drone Medal Awarded, Brennan Nomination Jeopardized


President Obama




John Brennan




Source: MSNBC News

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RE: Gibbs always pissed me off.
By MrBlastman on 2/25/2013 4:23:59 PM , Rating: 5

Well just throw out the entire rule of law then if you want to think like that. Doctrine and the Constitution are two different things.

They did not have all their facts straight prior to the drone strike. They also did not as I understand it imminent need to strike the citizen and his relatives to prevent mass casualties of American citizens. Only weeks or months afterwards did they have legitimate evidence to indict the individual.

That is scary. That is very scary. That is also NOT how the rule of law works. You have to first gather sufficient evidence for a Judge to not only issue a warrant for an individual's arrest but also enough for a Judge / Grand Jury to issue a formal indictment of an individual.

Due process was /not/ followed here. This is the problem. It is a horrifying problem when you start to imagine just how far our Government can go with it.


The problem is, as the administration in Washington sees it, is that you don't even have to declare yourself an enemy of the state formally. The state (sorry, Federal Thugs) only have to consider you an enemy of the state to take action.

This, this is a huge issue! Assassination is illegal but in their eyes, they've found a way to circumvent it against our own citizens?

Oh, you might argue... don't do anything and you have nothing to worry about. Well, the problem with that is just what is "something" that you have to do wrong to cross the line. The line is blurred. In fact, it dissolves when you throw out the rule of law. When that line is not finite and is only what "the powers that be" deem as crossing it, then you have a serious violation of our Constitution and the jeopardy of all of our well beings at stake.

