Judge Napolitano: Obama's Legal Justification For Drones Is Hogwash - Fox News 2/26/2013

Judge Andrew Napolitano joined Megyn Kelly on America Live this afternoon to discuss the recent revelation by former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs that he was told to never admit to the existence of the CIA drone program.

"When I went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was, you're not even to acknowledge the drone program. You're not even to discuss that it exists," Gibbs said Sunday on MSNBC.

That admission has raised questions again over the use of the top-secret strikes against terror suspects abroad.

Kelly asked the judge just how transparent the government is supposed to be when it comes to targeting terror suspects and potentially revealing secrets "that could get troops killed or Americans killed."

Napolitano responded by saying we "shouldn't be in the business of killing."

Kelly then emphasized that she only meant killing terrorists.

"He shouldn't be in the business killing people in friendly territories," said Napolitano. "These are people that could easily be arrested or people who could be taken care of by the government of the country in which they're located. But when the president thinks he can willy-nilly use drones however, whenever, and against whomever he wishes and then lie about it, we have a problem."

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[j wilson]

Is the Judge sick? Or has he just been losing weight?

[Eduardo89rp]

He's been on the paleo diet, he's lost a ton of weight.

[David Silva]

Show me where the US Congress has authorized a war in Pakistan, Somalia, Syria,

Yemen, and Qatar, or I will show you a war criminal named Barack Odroner

[baldwanus]

hopefully getting himself into peak physical condition to wipe the floor with everyone in 2016 =D

[darrkstarg]

You'll see alot more than that. You'll see criminals since Lincoln and possibly earlier than that.

[darrkstarg]

If anyone isn't familiar.  It is a gluten/salt/processed food/dairy free diet.

[David Silva]

Excellent point Extraduty-

If you get hit by a car, it doesn't matter whether the car was red or blue,

you still got hit by a car. Choice in politics is all about illusion.

[extradutyfelt1]

I don´t assume that everyone in the house of rep. and senate is a sell out, there are good, honest people in congress, but maybe they are not the majority, I don´t know..maybe you do.

[David Silva]

Thank you Extra duty. Very well said. I have worked in DC and met insiders. They all say when the cameras are off, Dems and Reps hug each otehr and say, "Whatever you need you let me know". It is an illusion of choice. In other words, if you got hit by a car, it doesn't matter if the car was red or blue, you still got hit by a car.

[turd ferguson]

they are all pigs and need to pay for their crimes

[David Silva]

Jade you are mistaken. I have never supported or voted for a single GOP member in my 50 years on this earth. I also fought dubya every day for 8 years. You are being manipulated by the "Divide and Conquer" agenda of the mainstream press into supporting Obama even though he drones innocent children, because dubya was a lot worse? No logic there.

[David Silva]

Orbit, I agree that Bush was ten times sleazier than Obama. But that does absolutely nothing to help the innocent children Obama has, and will drone.