re: #324 goddamnedfrank

How hard would it have been to try and change the criteria under which citizenship can be revoked? The only reason Al-awlaki didn’t qualify is because Al-Quaeda isn’t a foreign state, that seems like a long overdue and easy fix to make.

We’ll never know because the Administration never tried. It may seem like some bullshit technicality to some, but I think it’s kind of fucked up that we’re sitting here cheering people who’ve completely ruled out any judicial oversight in what they’re doing. These are people, Holder, telling us to rely on their imaginations, who couldn’t even imagine a way to try and strip a known terrorist of his citizenship before assassinating him.

Citizenship may be a distraction here. The notion of due process of law is not limited to citizens by the US constitution.