On February 4,a secret White House memo was leaked,entitled “Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen who is a Senior Operational Leader of Al Qa’ida or An Associated Force.” The memo in effect states that the President has the authority to kill any American citizen at anytime for any reason without proof,without due process,and with absolutely no oversight.
No one blinked an eye when American-born al-Qaeda-linked terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki was vaporized with a drone strike in September of 2011. But when his sixteen-year-old son,Abdulrahman,an American citizen born in Denver,Colorado,was vaporized in the same manner two weeks later without any proof that he had any connection to al-Qaeda,both the Left and Right cried foul.
Abdulrahman,along with several other teenagers,was engaged in the “terrorist” act of taking part in an outdoor barbecue.
According to the Abdulrahman’s grandfather:
To kill a teenager is just unbelievable,really,and they claim that he is an al-Qaeda militant. It’s nonsense,” said Nasser al-Awlaki,a former Yemeni agriculture minister who was Anwar al-Awlaki’s father and the boy’s grandfather.In fact,if we look at the key passage in Obama’s secret kill list memo,its legal justification does not simply require connection to al-Qaeda,but that he be deemed an “operational leader”:
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