Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'
by danesparza on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:55AM
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I think the idea is that as long as you can make the case for classifying them as an 'enemy combatant in an active war zone' it doesn't matter that they were a US citizen.
I'm not saying I agree with this -- I'm just trying to respond to your question.
Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'
by imron on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:06AM
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> as long as you can make the case for classifying them as an 'enemy combatant in an active war zone
Under the Obama administration, they decided to count all military-age males in a strike zone as enemy combatants, unless there was explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent [0].
Was a bomb dropped on a wedding to kill a terrorist? Well, all the other men aged 18-50 at the wedding are also classed as enemy combatants too, meaning 'no innocent civilians' were killed. Way to go Mr. Nobel Peace Prize winner.
0: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/under-o...
Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'
by danesparza on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:46AM
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Good lord. I wasn't aware of that one. Thanks for the link.
Edit: it was in the OP article.
There was some outcry about the president now having authority to kill even Americans without due process – “I think it’s sad,” said U.S. Congressman Ron Paul – but the uproar soon faded, and America’s assassination program accelerated still more. By late 2011, we’d killed more than 2,000 “militants.”