{"id":278008,"date":"2010-02-04T17:47:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=65185"},"modified":"2010-02-04T17:47:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:47:19","slug":"dni-blair-what%e2%80%99s-a-little-assassination-of-american-citizens-among-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/278008","title":{"rendered":"DNI Blair: What\u2019s a Little Assassination of American Citizens Among Friends?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tierney P. Nowland)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Well, this is. . . interesting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair acknowledged Wednesday that government agencies may kill U.S. citizens abroad who are involved in terrorist activities if they are “taking action that threatens Americans.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I love this new American criminal justice system, don’t you?<\/p>\n

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Blair told members of the House intelligence committee that he was speaking publicly about the issue to reassure Americans that intelligence agencies and the Department of Defense “follow a set of defined policy and legal procedures that are very carefully observed” in the use of lethal force against U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is basically about the US-born cleric in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, thought to be the connected to both the attack by Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hassan and the attempted attack by Christmas Day underpants bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. But the implications here are really astounding. We have the Director of National Intelligence saying that Americans can be targeted for assassination if they are involved with an extremist group, later saying that the decision would be based on “whether that American is a threat to other Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is that the new standard?<\/p>\n

[Ed. Note<\/strong><\/em>: Marcy has much more<\/a> on this.]<\/p>\n

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(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tierney P. Nowland) Well, this is. . . interesting. Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair acknowledged Wednesday that government agencies may kill U.S. citizens abroad who are involved in terrorist activities if they are “taking action that threatens Americans.” I love this new American criminal justice system, don’t you? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}