How many Americans are targeted for assassination?

[defendandprotect]

Friday, Jun 25, 2010 08:26 ET
How many Americans are targeted for assassination?
By Glenn Greenwald When The Washington Post's Dana Priest first revealed (in passing) back in January that the Obama administration had compiled a hit list of American citizens targeted for assassination, she wrote that "as of several months ago, the CIA list included three U.S. citizens." In April, both the Post and the NYT confirmed that the administration had specifically authorized the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki. Today, The Washington Times' Eli Lake has an interview with Obama's top Terrorism adviser John Brennan in which Brennan strongly suggests that the number of U.S. citizens targeted for assassination could actually be "dozens":

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Anyone who doubts that the Obama administration has adopted the core Terrorism policies of Bush/Cheney should listen to the concession -- or boast -- which Brennan himself made in his interview with Lake:


Mr. Brennan toward the end of the interview acknowledged that, despite some differences, there is considerable continuity between the counterterrorism policies of President Bush and President Obama.



"There has been a lot of continuity of effort here from the previous administration to this one," he said. "There are some important distinctions, but sometimes there is too much made of those distinctions. We are building upon some of the good foundational work that has been done."



http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/

[Redstone]

1. Oh, give me a fucking break from this lunacy, would you?

I feel bad that I even replied to this moronic post, and therefore bumped it up.

But, as I said, gimme a fucking break from this paranoid nonsense, OK?

Just PLEASE.

Redstone

[Senator]

12. Not clear who you're asking.

Or who you're calling a paranoid, a lunatic, and/or a moron. Brennan? Greenwald? The OPer? Someone else?

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[AnotherDreamWeaver]

16. you forget about Fred Hampton?

and the many taken down like they took him? What about Judi Bari, you ever hear of her?

[Octafish]

21. CIA officer Roland Carnaby killed by Houston PD

Video



And he was a friend of George Herbert Walker Bush, who served as a pallbearer.

[bluestateguy]

2. I have more important things to worry about than some terrorist getting offed

Like oil in the gulf, millions of law abiding citizens out of work, 2 wars, etc.

This does not even qualify for my radar screen.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Problem is, this is extra-judicial assassination

No judge involved, as far as I know - just Obama deciding he wants someone dead.

I hope he chooses wisely.

[villager]

4. That is indeed the problem, regardless of whether folks here can be "bothered" by it, or not

n/t

[defendandprotect]

23. Basically, no matter the issue, it all stems from corporate wealth/power . . .MIC/Intelligence --

the corruption of government -- and the control over candidates and parties!!

[EFerrari]

18. So in your view if the government offs them, they were terrorists.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. I suppose if someone ran off to fight alongside the Nazis it would be silly

to expect US troops to take any measure to separate them from the bulk the German military.

Roll the dice and move your mice, as the game says.

And I don't think Obama picked up Richard Nixon's enemies list and started where L'il Dick left off.

I suppose if we had Spec Ops or FBI or whoever in a position to grab them they should be obligated to use non-lethal means but if they're sipping tea with Bin Laden in some unreachable part of Pakistan when a missile comes through the window...

...meh.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Well, for starters...

there are the ones that know the truth about the moon landings...

[MannyGoldstein]

8. Are you saying that Obama has not unilaterally handed out death sentences?

Against US citizens? With zero judicial involvement?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Are you saying that Abraham Lincoln...

did not viciously assassinate many fine patriotic American citizens who just so happened to take up arms against the United States government in war?

[Catherina]

7. Shameful. Shameful silence about this also. Rec'd

[Octafish]

10. Seems Like Extrajudicial Execution of Americans is Blackwater's Business

Info on a most conservative company, especially when it comes to killing. In fact, they're sort of over-qualified.

From Jeremy Scahill:

Outing Erik Prince

... Prince also addressed what he described as his outing as a CIA asset working on sensitive US government programs. He has previously blamed Congressional Democrats and the news media for naming him as working on the US assassination program. The US intelligence apparatus "depends heavily on Americans that are not employed by the government to facilitate greater success and access for the intelligence community," Prince said. "It's unprecedented to have people outed by name, especially ones that were running highly classified programs. And as much as the left got animated about Valerie Plame, outing people by name for other very very sensitive programs was unprecedented and definitely threw me under the bus."

Uncle Sam has no business killing people, particularly American citizens, without trial. Those who think otherwise, don't have a clue.

K to the pants of tyranny and an R for Democracy.

[Senator]

20. A bit of projection for Blackwater Boy to be talking about "outing"

Scahill just said on Olbermann that they're getting billions in new contracts via "graymail" -- threatening to "out" their previous secret activities.

This cornered thug is a bigger threat to our national security than any other American citizen I've heard about.

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[hootinholler]

11. How is a summary execution not the ultimate violation of constitutional rights?

:shrug:

-Hoot

[Senator]

22. dunno

But, like torture, it "leads by example" down a more dangerous path for everyone.

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[Swamp Rat]

13. All of us on the Gulf Coast, apparently.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

17. may some blessing come your way Swamp Rat...

[defendandprotect]

24. What's happened there is shocking to me . . . the corruption and criminality of BP . . .

and our government not being prepared with assets to overtake this operation!!

We are evidently 1000% reliant on what BP tells us and BP pulling this thing out!!

And BP's very poor efforts at clean up and containing this stuff --

actually, the dispersants did the opposite!

Don't know if you've seen my other posts on the COAGULANT that Thom Hartmann was

talking about like two weeks into this?

The COAGULANT is allegedly available -- makes the oil easier to clean up --

and the stuff is NON-TOXIC ... after the oil is picked up, the COAGULANT is recoverable

and REUSABLE!!

[Senator]

14. K&+R

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

15. 47.

46.

[amborin]

19. K&R

[johnaries]

25. Anwar al-Awkaki is not only a terrorist, he's a freaking RECRUITER.

He is a self-proclaimed jihadist, and speaks proudly of his "students". He was put on the list because he is an imminent threat to the American people.

He was a fucking spy, goddamit! International law allows lethal force against anyone who is an imminent threat. This isn't a matter of missing WMD's or any kind of political manuvering. This guy wants to kill Americans and has recruited others to kill innocent Americans.