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Re:DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when ... by shkkmo on Saturday January 02, 2021 @10:06PM (#25618973)
> this is orthogonal to whether or not killing you is legally allowed, which is what the headline is suggesting.

The US has been killing US citizens this way for over a decade. It's pretty darn clear that the DOJ considers this legally allowable. Now the DOJ is arguing that once the goverment decides it is allowed to kill you, you can be prevented from challenging that decision in court if state secrets are involved.

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Re:DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when ... by dragonwriter on Saturday January 02, 2021 @10:10PM (#25619006)
> The US has been killing US citizens this way for over a decade

I'm pretty sure that targeted killings of US citizens believed to be engaged in war against the US by the federal government started not later than the 1860s (if you ignore those conducted under the auspices of the USA prior to the Constitution in a war in which whether a “US citizen” was even a legitimate concept was fundamentally in dispute.)

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