{"id":280581,"date":"2010-02-04T23:55:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T04:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21618"},"modified":"2010-02-04T23:55:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T04:55:50","slug":"on-the-claimed-%e2%80%9cwar-exception%e2%80%9d-to-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/280581","title":{"rendered":"On the Claimed \u201cWar Exception\u201d to the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2010\/02\/04\/assassinations\/index.html\">Salon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2010\/01\/27\/yemen\/index.html\">I wrote about<\/a> a revelation buried in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/26\/AR2010012604239.html?hpid=topnews\" ><em>Washington Post<\/em> article<\/a> by Dana Priest which described how the Obama administration has adopted the\u00a0Bush policy of targeting selected <strong>American citizens<\/strong> for assassination if they are deemed (by the Executive\u00a0Branch)\u00a0to be Terrorists.\u00a0 As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/feb\/04\/permission-needed-to-kill-american-terrorists\/\" ><em>The Washington\u00a0Times<\/em>&#8216; Eli Lake reports<\/a>, Adm. Dennis Blair was asked about this program at a Congressional hearing yesterday and he acknowledged its existence:<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. intelligence community policy on killing American citizens who have joined al Qaeda requires first obtaining high-level government approval, a senior official disclosed to Congress on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair said in each case <strong>a decision to use lethal force against a U.S. citizen must get special permission. . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He also said there are criteria that must be met to authorize the killing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Salon: Last week, I wrote about a revelation buried in a Washington Post article by Dana Priest which described how the Obama administration has adopted the\u00a0Bush policy of targeting selected American citizens for assassination if they are deemed (by the Executive\u00a0Branch)\u00a0to be Terrorists.\u00a0 As The Washington\u00a0Times&#8216; Eli Lake reports, Adm. Dennis Blair was asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280581","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\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}