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Post by duke on Feb 8, 2013 11:21:01 GMT -5
Greenwald Responds to the DOJ's Targeted Killing Leak Posted on Feb 5, 2013 The Department of Justice memo released by NBC News on Monday, which asserts the right of U.S. officials to kill American citizens without due process, 'equates government accusations with guilt,' writes former constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian. 'The core distortion of the War on Terror under both Bush and Obama is the Orwellian practice of equating government accusations of terrorism with proof of guilt,' Greenwald says. 'One constantly hears US government defenders referring to 'terrorists' when what they actually mean is: those accused by the government of terrorism. This entire memo is grounded in this deceit.' As is suggested by the memo's wordy title, 'Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a US Citizen Who is a Senior Operational Leader of al-Qaida or An Associated Force,' the Obama administration and its lawyers are attempting to convince the public that any American citizen it targets and kills should be assumed to have been a terrorist leader. This is a 'deceit,' Greenwald says. <snip> www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/greenwald_responds_to_the_dojs_targeted_killing_leak_20130205/
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