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Tag Archives: Drone Wars
License to Kill
Business Insider: Here’s When It’s Legal To Kill An American Citizen With A Drone The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has released a secret Obama administration memorandum detailing the legal justification for a 2011 drone strike … Continue reading
Did Nazi Lawyers Tell Hitler It Was Legal To Kill Jews?
From the New York Birdcage Liner: David Barron and Martin Lederman had a problem. As lawyers in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, it had fallen to them to declare whether deliberately killing Mr. Awlaki, despite his citizenship, would … Continue reading
#StandWithRand – The Epic Filibuster
ICYMI: 12 Hours And 54 Minutes Later, The Junior Senator From Kentucky Yields The Floor Fin. For more than half of an almost magical day, Sen. Rand Paul treated American political junkies to something we haven’t seen much of lately: … Continue reading
Like Pulling Teeth
Subtitled: “Scumbag Racist Senator Harasses Noble Black Attorney General” Ted Cruz Goads Eric Holder Into Admitting That Killing Americans With Drones On U.S. Soil Is Unconstitutional On Tuesday, the Department of Justice sent shockwaves through the nation when Attorney General … Continue reading
Progressives Without Principles
DOJ kill list memo forces many Dems out of the closet as overtly unprincipled hacks This past week has been a strangely clarifying political moment. It was caused by two related events: the leak of the Justice Department’s “white paper” … Continue reading
AYFKM?
Mediate: MSNBC’s The Cycle erupted into a heated verbal battle over the ethicality of drone warfare on Tuesday. Co-hosts S.E. Cupp and Steve Kornacki expressed serious reservations over a memo leaked to NBC News by the Justice Department detailing the … Continue reading
The Banality Of Evil
White House Responds To Drones Memo: Strikes Are ‘Legal,’ ‘Ethical’ And ‘Wise’ It’s no surprise that among the first questions White House Press Secretary Jay Carney received at today’s press briefing was one that concerned a recently-leaked Justice Department memo … Continue reading