re: #61 ggt

Really, about the same as I feel about John Wayne Gacy’s execution or Jeffrey Dahmer’s death in prison. Does it matter to me their their deaths weren’t ordered by the POTUS? Not one bit.

Monsters among us need to be removed, permanently.

The POTUS ordered the removal of an international Monster. To spin this as some dire attack on the rights of US Persons is way, way off base.

I am not spinning anything. I am just really interested in the issue and how people around here understand it.

To the point: Jeffrey Dahmer got a trial. Judicial review, due process, all that jazz.

Even the judge who dismissed Anwar Al-Awlaki’s father’s case seemed to admit that this was… different…

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a challenge to the Obama administration’s targeted-killing program, meaning the U.S. can continue to go after a Yemeni-American cleric whom it blames for terrorist plots.

The case, brought by the father of cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, raised difficult questions about the breadth of U.S. executive power, but U.S. District Judge John Bates said he couldn’t answer them as the father lacked legal standing to bring the case.

The “serious issues regarding the merits of the alleged authorization of the targeted killing of a U.S. citizen overseas must await another day or another (non-judicial) forum,” Judge Bates wrote in an 83-page ruling.

The judge acknowledged the “somewhat unsettling nature” of his conclusion “that there are circumstances in which the [president’s] unilateral decision to kill a U.S. citizen overseas” is “judicially unreviewable.”

online.wsj.com