"I've met the drone pilots. We are an ethical military."
Outstanding clip. At CPAC 2013 last weekend, WeAreChange follows, hassles and questions Senator Lindsey Graham on Obama's Disposition Matrix (kill list), indefinite detention provisions of the NDAA and drone strikes on U.S. citizens.
Lindsey Graham discusses Obama's Disposition Matrix.
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Further reading:
About a third of the way into in a Department of Justice white paper explaining why and when the President can kill American citizens, there is a citation that should give a reader pause. It comes in a section in which the author of the document, which was given to members of the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary committees last year—and obtained by Michael Isikoff, of NBC, on Monday—says that this power extends into every country in the world other than the United States, well beyond those where we are engaged in hostilities.
The reference is to an address that John R. Stevenson, a State Department legal adviser, gave before the Association of the Bar in New York in May, 1970, to justify the Nixon Administration’s incursion into Cambodia. Does that make everyone, or anyone, feel better about what the Obama Administration has decided it can do, or the extent to which it thought through the implications, unintended consequences, precedents, and random reckless damage it may be delivering with this policy?
How is this for ethics: