It has come to my attention that you have now asked an additional question: "Does the President have the authority
to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in
combat on American soil?" The answer to that question is no.
Eric H. Holder, Jr. Unfortunately, the question and answer couplet has a grammar problem and means something different than what Holder or Paul intends. As stated, it means, for example, that if an American is on Yeman soil, the President does not have authority to kill him even if that American is engaged in combat. A decent 10th grader could have spotted this problem.
How fortunate, then, that it will be Attorney General Holder, Jr. himself who will rule on the legality of any such action for the remainder of this administration.
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Also begs the question of the definition of actual "combat" and combatant. Not a great deal of thought went into that three liner legal opinion.
[News24] The US Senate voted on Thursday to proceed with the nomination of John Brennan to be President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... 's next director of the CIA, setting up his almost certain confirmation.
The Senate voted 81-16, with Republicans flocking to approve Brennan after a dramatic 13-hour filibuster the night before by Republican Rand Paul over the B.O. regime's refusal to unequivocally rule out drone strikes to conduct assassinations on US soil.
Paul was among more than 20 Republicans who backed Brennan, the architect of the controversial drone "assassination" policy that has seen several terror targets, including al-Qaeda operatives, killed in countries like Pakistain and Yemen.
Paul had held up the nomination, seeking clarification from the White House about whether it was US policy to allow the killing by a drone strike of a "non-combatant American citizen on US soil".
He got his answer on Thursday, when US Attorney General Eric Inaction Jackson Holder ... aka Mister Fast and Furious... wrote to the Kentucky politician to say that it was not.
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Excellent point Glenmore. Granted, I may be suffering from acute black helicopter syndrome, but I continue to be amazed at how many of these botched operations and made-for-teevee kinetic success stories can be tracked back to Mclean, VA.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Attorney General Eric Inaction Jackson Holder ... aka Mister Fast and Furious... wrote Sen. Rand Paul,R-Ky., to confirm that President B.O. does not have the authority to kill an American on U.S. soil in a non-combat situation, Obama's front man announced today. Why the hell didn't they say that in the first place?
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney quoted from the letter that Holder sent to Paul today. "Does the president have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on an American soil?" Holder wrote, per Carney. "The answer is no."
Paul said that was good enough for him. "I'm quite happy with the answer," he said during a CNN interview. "I'm disappointed it took a month and a half and a root canal to get it, but we did get the answer."
Carney added that, "if the United States were under attack, there were an imminent threat," the president has the authority to protect the country from that assault.
Sen. Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO... , R-S.C., criticized Paul for posing the question. "I find the question offensive," he said on the Senate floor this morning.
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I have no doubts all of those USDOD assets on sequester stand-down in CONUS, e.g. USN CVNS + Helo Carriers + USAF, look tempting to the PLA 2nd Arty + ICBMS + PLAN Subs.
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