{"id":465,"date":"2013-02-04T09:54:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T13:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=465"},"modified":"2013-02-11T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T14:03:26","slug":"justifying-drone-targetting-of-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Justifying Drone Targetting of Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC today published a &#8220;white paper&#8221; by the Department of Justice &#8212; undated by clearly written during the Obama Administration &#8212; providing the legal framework for U.S. drones to kill U.S. citizens suspected of involvement in terrorist activity.\u00a0 (<a title=\"DOJ doc\" href=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/i\/msnbc\/sections\/news\/020413_DOJ_White_Paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here <\/a>to see it.) \u00a0 The document asserts that it would be lawful to kill a United States citizen if \u201can informed, high-level official\u201d of the government decided that the target was a ranking figure in Al Qaeda who posed \u201can imminent threat of violent attack against the United States\u201d and if his capture was not feasible.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s screaming out for some parsing.\u00a0 Which &#8220;informed, high-level official&#8221;?\u00a0 Based on whose information?\u00a0 Who vets the information and is so confident of it to sentence a man or woman to death without trial, defense, judge or jury?\u00a0 Who determines &#8220;imminent threat&#8221;?\u00a0 And who determines that capture is not feasible?<\/p>\n<p>Surely there&#8217;s got to be a way to get closer to our values on something like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC today published a &#8220;white paper&#8221; by the Department of Justice &#8212; undated by clearly written during the Obama Administration &#8212; providing the legal framework for U.S. drones to kill U.S. citizens suspected of involvement in terrorist activity.\u00a0 (Click here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=465\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}