Are you ready to be told that the Director of National Intelligence thinks it’s okay to assassinate Americans who the intelligence community believes are terrorists?
Nope, not lying. First, we were right-wing domestic terrorists if we read the Constitution, then we were an Angry Mob, and now it’s okay to assassinate us. Their words, not mine.
License to Kill? Intelligence Chief Says U.S. Can Take Out American...
Director of National Intelligence Says Intelligence Community Can Target Citizens Presenting a Terrorist Threat
The director of national intelligence affirmed rather bluntly today that the U.S. intelligence community has authority to target American citizens for assassination if they present a direct terrorist threat to the United States. (emphasis mine)
“We take direct actions against terrorists in the intelligence community; if … we think that direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that,” Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the House Intelligence Committee.Rep. Peter Hoekstra D-Mich., addressed the issue at today’s hearing.
“The targeting of Americans — it’s a very sensitive issue, but again there’s been more information in the public domain than what has been shared with this committee,” he said.
“There is no clarity.” Hoekstra said. “What is the legal framework?”
“Whether that American is involved in a group that is trying to attack us, whether that American has — is a threat to other Americans. Those are the factors involved.” Blair explained. “We don’t target people for free speech. We target them for taking action that threatens Americans.”
According to U.S. officials, only a handful of Americans would be eligible for targeting by U.S. intelligence or military operations. The legal guidance is determined by the National Security Council and the Justice Department. (emphasis mine)
Don’t you feel better now knowing that progressive Eric Holder holds your fate in his hands?
In the past, the U.S. has killed Americans overseas but they were viewed as “collateral damage.” In 2002, the CIA killed American-born Kamal Derwish, a member of the “Lackawanna 6″ terror group during a CIA Predator drone strike. Derwish was driving in a car with other members of al Qaeda, the government said.In 2008, a missile strike in Somalia killed American Ruben Shumpert, a Seattle man suspected of being an Islamist radical. Shumpert was wanted by federal authorities on gun and counterfeit currency charges. He had agreed to plead guilty but fled the country days before sentencing in 2004.
The Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al Awlaki, who has become a prominent influence with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was at a meeting with leaders of the terror group when U.S. officials knowingly launched a cruise missile strike to eliminate the terror leaders. Several people were killed but Awlaki survived.
ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDING ME?
UN-FRAKKIN’-BELIEVABLE!
Can you believe that an American used the words assassinate and Americans together in a the same sentence as if it was just a mathematical theorum?
:::::Screaming::::::Hair On Fire:::::
I cannot tell you how INCENSED I am right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Due process? Constitutional Rights? Oh, I forgot – that’s only for foreign, islamic jihadists, usually caught on foreign soil. NOT Americans!
(Editor’s Note: This story from ABC! Maybe they are feeling the pressure to report real news now? Or maybe they are just trying to stir up a hornet’s nest?)
(H/T LN)
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