Obama Cripples Due Process

Glenn Greenwald at the UK Guardian has written a blistering piece about Eric Holder’s Justice Department and its recent legal memo announcing that the President can call for the assassination o US citizens before any trial.

There are six main points Greenwald makes about this power-grabbing finding:

1. A government accusation is equated with guilt
2. The legal opinion creates a ceiling but not a floor
3. The finding relies on the Bush/Cheney theory of a global battlefield
4. The concept of "imminent" attack is expanded beyond recognition
5. Obama subordinates effectively become secret courts
6. The legal opinion makes a mockery of due process

The entire article is online at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/obama-kill-list-doj-memo