Obama Kill List

"Memorial Day weekend brought news of more U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan as The New York Times raises new questions about President Obama's so-called "Kill List" of terrorists targeted for assassination. An extensive report in Tuesday's paper looks at the use of targeted attacks to take out terrorism suspects in other parts of the world, an increasingly important part of the government's anti-terrorism policies that Barack Obama himself has taken personal responsibility for. According to the story, the President approves every name on the list of terrorism targets, reviewing their biographies and the evidence against them, and then authorizing "lethal action without hand-wringing."

As the president has slowly drawn down American forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, the use of drone attacks to take out senior leaders of al-Qaeda and the Taliban has become the primary tactic for fighting terrorism overseas. However, it raises a lot of legal and ethical questions about extra-judicial killings of individuals, particularly those who happen to be American citizens...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more from Dashiell Bennett in The Atlantic Wire: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/nation...

Read the NY Times report from Jo Becker and Scott Shane: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/wor...

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[TheMinimumPC]

What if any president of the US is just a puppet and is controlled by a powerful organization for capitalist interests. Maybe the President and his entire family has bombs surgically planted in them and cannot disclose it. That's a scary possibility

[jebthereb2]

doing torture? Doing blacksite? sheesh

[Claire E Pearsall]

sometimes i think that peace prize winners shouldn't have a kill list

[nokuhobune]

im on the list 

[teeonezee]

I agree with boomerangcraig

[boomerangcraig]

USA Justice = Just Us -bunch if war mongers !!

[clarence turner]

The tyt jump all over republicans for what they do and say.Wait and see what President Obama has planned for this nation before his term ends in four years.We are headed in a direction that the people of this country are not going to be able to recover from.We are headed in the direction of becoming just another third world country instead of the country that we once were.President Obama is moving us all along in the direction of a third world country.We are blinded by what he has said he'll do.

[dergus11]

They are taking out the resistance 1st,then u will b next....doubt all u want but when some faschist prick is holding a gun to your loved ones,i know my spelling sucks im on morphine so tough,plse stockpile food or u will regret it..

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