Judge Napolitano on Obama's Drone Strike Policy: 'This Is the Power Claimed by Kings and Tyrants'

Judge Andrew Napolitano, saying on Fox Business Network earlier today that the Justice Department has "resisted in every forum" attempts to gain access to the legal opinions that the drone policy is based on. He said the government has persuaded judges that releasing the information could threaten national security.

"Suddenly it shows up in an NBC newsroom earlier this week! It could only have come from a governmental source. So they really have made fools of the federal judges who've spent hours and days and weeks struggling over the laws involved here," said Napolitano, who called the document itself "breathtaking and chilling" because of the power it grants the government.

"It says 'any informed high-level U.S. government official can strip an American of his or her constitutional protections and order the killing of that American if the person is overseas, if it's difficult to arrest that person," said Napolitano, explaining that the memo does not clearly define what "imminent danger" to the United States means.

"This is the power claimed by kings and tyrants. This is about as un-American a power as one could imagine," he said.

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[makeliberty]

Judge Nap is on fire this week.

[capoman1]

Damn the judge looks great!

[Jack O'Scratch]

ou mean a million IDIOT march, don't you?

[Jack O'Scratch]

He is. He's spewing BULLSHIT.

[Jack O'Scratch]

No. Just the deaths of idiot right winger morons like YOU.

[xoLEADFOOTox]

L&S

[bunkermh]

Our own U.S. gov't is the biggest threat to U.S. national security.

[random69ism]

That sounds like a declaration of war on the people and that is TREASON!

[random69ism]

So is the prez going to order his own death?

[mickey rourke]

So why doesnt  Judge Napolitano do something?

[madmaxxmad2]

“The position of the government of Pakistan is quite clear. It does not consent to the use of drones by the United States on its territory and it considers this to be a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty.”