Article Source:
(1) White House Press Secretary Jay Carney via ABC News
(2) Department of Justice via NBC News
Article Summary:
(1) White House Press Briefing.
• White House lawyers have declared that the assassination of United States Citizens in foreign countries is lawful.
• White House Press Secretary Jay Carney states: "The United States does not require clear evidence."
• An American Citizen need only be accused as a terror suspect to earn execution.
(2) DoJ white paper via NBC.
• Military conflict renders the rights of U.S. Citizens Null and Void: The 4th Amendment and the 5th Amendment Due Process Clause do not protect American citizens because the "government's interest in waging war" is more compelling than "the private interest in the accuracy of a criminal proceeding that places an individual's life or liberty at risk" (p.6). White House counsel advises that the "realities of war" make judicial process due a citizen suspected of acting militarily against the United States unreasonable. Asymmetrical warfare creates an imminent need for judgment that due process impedes. Therefore, the military aims of the U.S. Government voids the rights of citizens to be free from extrajudicial execution. (p.7)
• No evidence required: "The condition that a [suspected] operational leader [with U.S. Citizenship] present an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future" (p.7). Bracketed text added for clarification.
Source Link:
(1)
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/02/drone-strikes-on-us-terror-suspects-legal-ethical-wise-white-house-says/
(2)
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/020413_DOJ_White_Paper.pdf
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