On February 4, a secret White House memo was leaked, entitled “Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen who is a Senior Operational Leader of Al Qa’ida or An Associated Force.” The memo in effect states that the President has the authority to kill any American citizen at anytime for any reason without proof, without due process, and with absolutely no oversight.
No one blinked an eye when American-born al-Qaeda-linked terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki was vaporized with a drone strike in September of 2011. But when his sixteen-year-old son, Abdulrahman, an American citizen born in Denver, Colorado, was vaporized in the same manner two weeks later without any proof that he had any connection to al-Qaeda, both the Left and Right cried foul.
Abdulrahman, along with several other teenagers, was engaged in the “terrorist” act of taking part in an outdoor barbecue.
According to the Abdulrahman’s grandfather:
To kill a teenager is just unbelievable, really, and they claim that he is an al-Qaeda militant. It’s nonsense,” said Nasser al-Awlaki, a former Yemeni agriculture minister who was Anwar al-Awlaki’s father and the boy’s grandfather.
In fact, if we look at the key passage in Obama’s secret kill list memo, its legal justification does not simply require connection to al-Qaeda, but that he be deemed an “operational leader”:
The condition that an operational leader present an ‘imminent’ threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future.
But whether Abdulrahman was a leader of al-Qaeda or not is really not the point. The point of the secret memo that has everyone up in arms is that Obama not only does not have to grant American citizens abroad due process, but that there is no oversight to the kill list; that Obama does not have to prove to any entity, including his own Administration, that the person killed presents a threat to the United States.
Of course, the next question becomes: If Obama can suspend due process and murder American citizens abroad, does he then have the authority to do the same thing on American soil?
This was the question asked and ignored on the day after the secret memo was released, whereby Obama abruptly left the press conference, leaving White House spokesman Jay Carney flapping in the wind. Carney called Obama’s unchecked power of “surgical drone strikes” “legal, ethical, and wise,” which sounded very pithy, but never answered the question.
Of course, we already know the answer to this question, as Obama’s legal justification as stated in the memo does not distinguish whether the American citizen is living in the United States or abroad.
The Left, as we have seen in the last few days, are coming to realize what conservatives have known for some time: We have a dictator in the Oval Office.
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A psychologist should have access to evaluate obama for mental illness and if found to be mentally unbalanced should be taken out of office and put where he cannot continue his illegal assaults on our freedoms and constitution.
This will never happen and obama will never be impeach because we have a gutless congress with no balls to anything about obama but only to be his slave.
And there money and ranks in office, thats what comes first, Not us, not America
You are so right and I have been getting emails for 3 years on impeach Obama but they all come with wanting a donation and I have donated but can’t donate to every one that emails wanting money. Like you I don’t think they will ever impeach him (gay, illegal, American hating Muslim) because like you said there is not a member of Congress or the House who have any balls and IMO Obama has pulled the biggest scam on the American people and the idiots who sit in office by running for office, being illegal and winning and there is not one of those idiots who will say hey we screwed up. They are not blind and they can see what he is doing but they sit on their fat butts and do nothing but kiss his ass,
I am afraid for my kids, grandkids and great grandkids and what is going to happen. I love my country but I hate my government and I never thought I would see what is going on happen to my country the greatest country in the world. Just last week some of the big shots from China were quoted as calling Obama monkey man and saying he was elected to protect America but he puts her down. What is it going to take to get him out of office. He is nothing but a Devil, Evil and a gay illegal American hating Muslim and he will have this into a Muslim country you watch. Already his Allah is in the schools in some states headed for all schools but yet our kids can’t pray before a game or pledge to the flag but they have Allah as the God in saying the pledge in some schools. All I can say is God Bless America and if all the people would raise hell and ban together we could get rid of Obama and the other idiots in DC, There are not enough jails to hold everyone, the FEMA camps are Obamas plan for the people and if he is allowed to kill whoever he wants without any explanation we are in trouble. He hates anyone who does not agree with him and the top of his list is Sheriff Joe and Donald Trump. If Obama is legal why did he go to school under the grants for students who are not citizens or are the citizen of another Country
JUST LIKE THE OTHER TEEN-ANGERS HE KILLED IN MEXICO IN HIS FAST & FURIOUS DEBACLE.
i like it
Could YOU send your picture into the White House immediatly! Let’s not forget this will be ALL ADMINISTRATIONS so when your party is not in power will you be on the hit list?
Could you be a bit more specific? Exactly what about this do you like?
BO is a vile human and it is very worrisome that no one anywhere in so-called high places has the gumption to call this nasty, illegal, criminal fake prez. to account.
He is nothing but a gay illegal American hating Muslim who thinks he is the King and or God and holds the highest office in the country and he needs nothing but him and if he could he would get rid of everyone of the other idiots in office and he would control all of America. The Treasure of TX got it right when he said anyone who voted for Obama are maggots and we all know maggots start out in garbage and he is garbage. I love my country, but I hate my government and as far as I care they are the destruction of our country. They beg and promise and what do we get more lies and more lies and look at Jesse Jackson JR and all the money he got in running for election but spent it on other things. Maybe if they looked at all of the idiots in office they will find they are all crooks and liars and have screwed the American public and the money they collected has gone for them and their family. With Obama care why is it good for us but they don’t have to use it. If it is good enough for the people then it is good enough for the liars and crooks in office now.
They should also have access to do the same to the Media, or even required. The media are our number one enemy right now, we already knew the government was, but the media, they are owned by the government. Glen Beck has even become no better than fox, if you look closely it’s nearly the same headlines and stories, and stories is the key. This site and a few more are the only ones I can gather information from and even this site has ridiculous stories that are small jabs that mean little, just to publish something. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate this site, I just throw the dribble aside and take it as , “them just taking up space when they can’t or wont publish something important”. I still appreciate you, please don’t edit me again…Thank you!
You have got this 100% absolutely right, the media is a disgrace, putting him on an untouchable throne, but I have to disagree with you on Fox, I was talking with some friends a while back and I brought up “Benghazi” and to my amazement they knew very little if anything about the debacle (if one could even call it anything less)…then I started questioning what News channels they followed…it was a mixture of channel 7 action news (WTF) and CNN…I though what the hell if people don’t watch Fox and don’t have a computer to follow sites like this one, they are completely out of touch with what is really going on…it may be small jabs, but all these small jabs add up..another site I go on is the intelligence insider. I started reading columns in there when Benghazi atrocity first happened , I saved all my articles. and I remember when I read the very first one that had a resource of information in it, I thought to myself, “no, frickin’ way, this info surely cannot be accurate, it all seemed so surreal to me that this could actually happen in this fashion and this Adm. got away with this, to my amazement every single thing written in that article (well, well, well before any of this info hit in these hearings), it was all true…I actually knew things before they were being exposed..just google intelligence insider and you might be as amazed as I was..check it out!
Only a King, Despot or Dictator would claim to have the power to kill anyone they want. Our President does not in anyway have that right.
Before proposing such authority to a profession born from a cocaine addict’s interpretations of his own dreams already in possession of power to destroy long standing family principle you might care to investigate documented abuses perpetrated by it’s practitioners in light of expanding biased judiciary.oversight.
Their accepted practice of selecting a foreman from a jury pool before the jury first convenes should sound an alarm heard from Alaska to Maine. Complete collapse of any trial by jury of peers is thereby corrupted.. The ensuing events brought on by power in the hands of any single individual has been documented for more than 2500 years.
Your misplaced trust in such institutions created from fiction for financial gain under a hundred years of negligently corrupt oversight is indicative of the source of your uninformed opinion. No doubt you would also support the looming specter of universal background checks in violation of the Fifth and Ninth amendments when any answers to questions are considered as tools for future intimidation and conviction.
Any evaluation required other than his many protected years of illegal political practice must be derived through House initiation and Senate trial for enumerable acts of treason to establish the discovery process necessary for indictment of all involved. There are very many more engaged in any conspiracy of such magnitude. Anything less will serve to protect all the elect and appointed guilty after the fact. A plea of insanity would close the door depriving the republic of justice for all complicit in the greatest political conspiracy yet attempted on the US and all it’s deserving citizens.
this is wrong… this is unconstitutional… this is murder… and the dictator needs to be escorted in a straight jacket from the position he holds hostage in the White House into a permanent lock down mental ward… because I am pretty sure he can be deemed mentally unfit, by a mental health professional, to be in the position he is in…
This is MURDER! And the liberals were ready to hang George W. Bush for the ‘water boarding’ that occurred on his watch. That didn’t KILL U.S. Citizens. No wonder the U.S. is hated by all these countries that we are sending these drones in without ANY Congressional oversight! IMPEACH Obama before the next drone kills someone in your neighborhood.
Drones against American citizens, the same goes for obama!!!!!!
Hers what scares me Ok he can kill these people over seas that are terrorist, But dont they have to prove it if they are American born? Plus how long will it take before he starts killing people here? Not long Im sure……
he going to start the same thing here if you dont believe in his way of government, Socialist/ Marxist/ Communist , way of thinking …..Please tell me im wrong or I am paranoid. I hope thats all it is.
I surely wish I could tell you that you were wrong, but he is everything you think and say and probably a lot more…we are in deep crap, he has weakened our defense system for a reason, and this = disaster for the American people, our freedoms and liberties are no longer…
Why call Anwar al-Awlaki a “terrorist..??” He was outspoken, that is his RIGHT..! Small wonder the usurping clown gets away with murder, he not only has all the support of the MSM, but bloggers as well..
I figure it woln’t be too long till Obama ends up having us all killed by his Homeland Security people than allwaed have enough ammo to kill us all twice over !! Someone in Congress or the Supreme Court better grow a pare before America ceses to exsist !!
Obama has over a million American citizens murdered every year through abortion and partial birth. What is two American citizens or twenty five American citizens murdered by some kid that was out of his mind. And there is always the thought that since to Obama life is cheap why wouldn’t he be involved the murder of these innocent children in Connecticut just so he and his Anti-gunner close friends can kill the second Amendment. We will have no guns to protect ourselves from Obama the Killer. Remember what The Communist Manifesto says, “the end justifies the means” Obama is a coward he doesn’t have the guts to do his own killing so he uses the CIA-or the Army or mental retards to do his killing. Obama is firing any General who says he will not fire on the American people. That is why Obama is raising his own Army, which is against the Constitution, to swear allegiance to him, then watch all the murders he will commit. Don’t forget go buy a gun and all the ammo you can, the Obama killer Government is coming for us.
I agree murder is what was done and Obama is not even a US citizen-that makes him the terrorist and he should be executed for warcrimes
So? Do you think he cares? We care, we are outraged at everything this man has done for 4+ years, but not a soul will do anything about ti. He is a madman with some Utopian idea of how this country should be run and how we have to fall in line and that comes with an ‘OR ELSE”.
Eventually we will be dominated by China or more likely, the mid-Ease since the far-East loathes islam & we sure as hell can’t make Mohammad’s flock unhappy.
What concerns me is whether our military will turn on us per his directives; they have followed every order, directive he or his flunkies have given – and he’s brought them to their knees. I cannot imagine anything more stressfull than being on a Fast Attack submarine and having a gay bunk mate…the list is endless and you’ve heard it before.
Re: another article in this webletter – Yes, Michelle has a butt as big as Navy’s football field.
“The Left, as we have seen in the last few days, are coming to realize what conservatives have known for some time: We have a dictator in the Oval Office.”
Do they realize that at all? I wonder. I’ve personally been called a murderer just because I own guns and have had “surgical strikes” wished upon ME just because I called that Neo-Communist Muslim in the Red House what he is. A Communist.
In all that has transpired in the past few years it is the LIBERAL LEFTISTS who are the purveyors of violence! Bomb this, missile that, Mali, Libya, Yemen, nuke Israel. Leftists MURDER kids. LEFTISTS MURDER people in theaters. LEFTISTS who want to drag gun owners behind a pick-up truck. Leftists who want to murder the NRA brass, and any NRA member for that matter.
The Red MSM screams about guns and ignores the LEFTIST ties these mass MURDERS have. No, they don’t care that Obama is just one more LEFTIST MURDERER with really expensive toys to play with.
Dictator? Meh!
Realize Obama is a dictator? They already know that. They WANT Obama to step up the murders of their enemies. When and if they openly stand up and decry Obama’s excesses I’ll believe that they MAY see the truth. Only then.
Barry Soetoro is a coward. He who lives by the drone will die by the drone. Turn-about is fair play. If Barry Soetoro has a son, he would look just like Anwar al-Awlaki’s son, Abdulrahman.
Thanks for the well-put heads on this one, Kris.
Now, if you could just help to get some liberal media to respond…and get a dialogue going……
This is just the prelude to using the drones that are already in the skies of America – watching US – his enemies. Remember that the Scum in Uniform in the Pentagon have declared US terrorists. Remember that the DHS and the Dyke-in-Command there have declared US terrorists. Don’t remember Congress, they’re beyond useless and most of them have declared us to be terrorists too. Republican Lindsey Graham anyone? In fact, anyone who believes in the tenets of the Bible and the Constitution of the United States is considered a terrorist and an ENEMY OF THE STATE!!!
Imagine THAT! An upholder of the Constitution is now an enemy of those who swore to uphold the Constitution! And the Liberal/Neo-Communists in the Media and elsewhere think that is great.
If I look out a window in the near future could I expect to see a GBU inbound and have only nanoseconds to live? YES. Because the Scum in the Pentagon and the Scum in Congress are too damned cowardly to do their jobs.
These Communist slugs will use whatever weapons they have to complete their hostile take-over of the United States while our “defenders” either pitch in to help with our destruction or stand aside watching. Not a ONE of them deserves the awards and medals they wear or the percs they rake in. They have FAILED in their sworn duty and turned treasonous by declaring US the enemy.
Oh, yes! Those drones will soon be firing missiles at American citizens of every age right here in the USA.
Obama stands accused of Treason,Espionage,RICO Crimes,Fraud,inter alia.
Obama is subject to the DEATH penalty himself,if convicted.
The State of Virginia is considering charging Obama with Capital Murder in this cae.
Question, how come Obama has not come out and said, “That if he had a son, he would look like Aburlrahman al-Awaki.” That’s what he said when he came out in support of Trevon Martin, when Zimmerman shot and killed Martin in self defense.
Do you suppose there’s a better than even chance that Obama is a marked man by Al Q? I’m inclined to think so only because he has boasted about his killings of OBL and other terrorists. The thing to do when there’s a drone strike or special ops mission that takes out one of the terrorists or a member of the terrorist’s family is to keep his mouth shut but oh no, he’s got to run off at the mouth bragging about it (OBL) or issuing a lengthy explanation justifying the legality of a drone strike. Who cares? Just STF up.
And then there was his bleeding heart rendition of opposing that awful enhanced interrogation technique “Water Boarding” which is precisely what netted him all the glory for getting OBL. Obama, wouldn’t even make a decision to launch the mission of SEAL Team Six to get OBL, he kept waffling around for 3 months. The decision finally had to be made by Panetta of the CIA in concert with the SecDef. Obama was out playing golf and had to be hauled back inside the situation room to watch and listen to the OBL raid. He was AWOL then and he was AWOL on Benghazi according to Panetta’s recent congressional testimony contrary to the lie obviously told by Jay Carney months before that Obama was continually engaged. That lie was followed quickly by a series of lies about an obscure YouTube video that had prompted a spontaneous demonstration that got out of hand. Obama is not out of the woods yet on Benghazi. One can only hope.
While Obama has signed an EO that gives himself lifetime SS protection, one wonders if it will be enough to keep at bay Al Q if they come after him in an act of revenge for his having bragged about killing some of their leaders. He needs to put a zipper in his mouth.
I DON’T AGREE WITH THE TERRORIST RULING AMERICA BECAUSE HE IS A TERRORIST AGAINST AMERICA HIMSELF AND SHOULD BE IN GITMO FACING THE FIRING SQUAD FOR TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICA .THIS 16 YEAR OLD WAS A TERRORIST JUST LIKE AND TRAINED BY HIS FATHER. A TERRORIST IS A TERRORIST REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THER ARE FOREIGN OR “HOME-GROWN, DOMESTIC” TERRORISTS. IF THEY ARE PLOTTING TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICA THEY SHOULD BE EXTERMINATED, ASAP IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE AT THE TIME, BE IT DRONE OR RIFLES, ETC. THESE TERRORISTS WERE “TAKEN OUT” AND THAT’S THAT MANY LESS TERRORISTS TO WORRY ABOUT AND GOOD FOR AMERICA. “ANYONE” WHO WANTS TO DESTROY AMERICA IS A TERRORIST AGAINST AMERICA NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE OR WHERE THEY ARE AND NEEDS TO BE TAKEN OUT, ASAP. OF COURSE, THE CORRUPT MOTTO IS, “IT’S NOT “WHAT” YOU ARE BUT “WHO” YOU ARE” FOR ALL CORRUPTION.
MR. ZOLNA, HE DIDN’T USE THE AL-AWAKI KID AS AN EXAMPLE OF A SON BECAUSE HE DOESN’T WANT AMERICA TO KNOW THAT HE IS A TERRORIST AGAINST AMERICA HIMSELF. HE THINKS ALL AMERICANS ARE STUPID TO THAT FACT BUT EVERY AMERICAN IS NOT A “USELESS NO-GOOD, SEWAGE MORON” WHO THINKS THAT HE IS THE “BLACK MESSIAH” WHO HAS COME TO SAVE THEM. THE LAUGH WILL BE ON THEM WHEN THEIR “BLACK MESSIAH” FINALLY SHOWS HIS “HORNS” (WHEN HE DECLARES DICTATORSHIP) INSTEAD OF “WINGS” AND HE SHOWS THEM THAT THEY ARE JUST A STUPID “ENEMY” AMERICAN TO HIM JUST LIKE THE REST OF US. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Obama is a murderer and needs to be impeached and charged with fraud and treason we don’t need this foreigner here in America unless he is put in prison and charged with the death sentence he no good trash this liar thief and killer has already killed 4 Americans in Libya Obama is trash needs to be treated as such get rid of this bastard NOW