re: #12 Gus

Would we be asking these same questions, ex post facto, had Osama bin Laden been executed in such a manner?

Kind of deliberately misses the point that bin Laden wasn’t a citizen. Maybe the circumstances in which one loses their citizenship shouldn’t be limited the way they are by allegiance to another state engaged in hostilities against the US, but instead expanded to include NGOs. Regardless the killing was totally extrajudicial, we didn’t even try to strip al-Aulaqi of his citizenship first, which if not frightening on it’s face should at least prompt questions about how and where future administrations might apply the precedent.