President Barack Obama had personally authorized the killing. “I want Awlaki,” he is said to have told his advisers at one point. “Don’t let up on him.” The President’s bracing words about a fellow American are reported in “Kill or Capture,” a recent and important book on the Obama Administration’s detention and targeted-killing programs, by Daniel Klaidman, a former deputy editor of Newsweek.
With those words attributed to Obama, Klaidman has reported what would appear to be the first instance in American history of a sitting President speaking of his intent to kill a particular U.S. citizen without that citizen having been charged formally with a crime or convicted at trial.
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The same paragraph stuck with me also.
ReplyDeleteThe Nobel Peace Prize winner is one of the greatest con men of all time. Now his true colors are coming out.
He is not white.
He is not black.
He is green with envy for standing in the shadow of the devil.