ACLU challenges CIA hit-list

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Civil liberties groups challenge constitutionality of secret U.S. program to target terror suspects for killing
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging the U.S. government's authority to target and kill U.S. citizens outside of war zones when they are suspected of involvement in terrorism.

The civil liberties groups sued in U.S. District Court in Washington after being retained by the father of Anwar al-Aulaqi, a radical U.S.-born cleric who is in hiding in Yemen.

The CIA placed Aulaqi on its list of suspected terrorists it is authorized to kill earlier this year; the cleric had been on a separate list of individuals targeted by the Joint Special Operations Command.

"The United States cannot simply execute people, including its own citizens, anywhere in the world based on its own say-so," Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a written statement. "That the government adds people to kill lists after a bureaucratic process and leaves them on the lists for months at a time flies in the face of the Constitution and international law."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/30/AR2010083003469.html?hpid=topnews

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1. "The List" is a big problem for those who may be targeted

for reasons other than terrorism....

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2. yep

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3. we create terrorism every time a CIA drone attacks