badgenome on 17 February 2012
| Kasz216 said: Did anything ever even leak about the legal justication? I'm curious whether they went with the ever popular "He stopped being a citizen after he went over there." a vague "The army can kill rioters so why not this guy" or something completely else. Really, thinking about it, the even greater comparison is probably Bush's legal position on torture... torture vs murdering a US citizen. I dunno. |
According to a New York Times article I read, the people who've seen the memo say it basically concluded that he was a traitor during a time of active war and could therefore be targeted like any other al-Qaeda member.
