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Real News @ http://RevolutionNews.US — Glenn Greenwald: Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens The president's partisan lawyers purport to vest him with the most extreme power a political leader can seize The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but has exercised it in practice. In September 2011, it killed US citizen Anwar Awlaki in a drone strike in Yemen, along with US citizen Samir Khan, and then, in circumstances that are still unexplained, two weeks later killed Awlaki's 16-year-old American son Abdulrahman with a separate drone strike in Yemen. Since then, senior Obama officials including Attorney General Eric Holder and John Brennan, Obama's top terrorism adviser and his current nominee to lead the CIA, have explicitly argued that the president is and should be vested with this power. Meanwhile, a Washington Post article from October reported that the administration is formally institutionalizing this president's power to decide who dies under the Orwellian title "disposition matrix". When the New York Times back in April, 2010 first confirmed the existence of Obama's hit list, it made clear just what an extremist power this is, noting: "It is extremely rare, if not unprecedented, for an American to be approved for targeted killing." The NYT quoted a Bush intelligence official as saying "he did not know of any American who was approved for targeted killing under the former president". When the existence of Obama's hit list was first reported several months earlier by the Washington Post's Dana Priest, she wrote that the "list includes three Americans". Full Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/obama-kill-list-doj-memo - "Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people." —Thomas Jefferson - Time For A New American Revolution? - Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/RevolutionNewz Facebook: http://facebook.com/RevolutionNewsDotUS Original Channels: http://youtube.com/RevolutionNewsUS http://youtube.com/RevolutionNewsDotUSUS3 http://youtube.com/RevolutionNewz http://www.youtube.com/PresidentTerrorist http://youtube.com/TheHaightAshbury http://youtube.com/HashburyNews http://youtube.com/ChildTerrorist http://youtube.com/NaziPolice http://youtube.com/NoBrainMcCain http://youtube.com/TerroristPatriot http://youtube.com/TerroristCitizen http://youtube.com/PropagandaTruth - Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.