The Targeted Killing of Al-Awlaki

By A Guy Called LULU on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 12:52pm |

The Obama Administration has followed the Bush Administration in having the Department of Justice prepare a secret memo reportedly justifying the decision to target al-Awlaki (which it has so far refused to release). The Bush Administration’s secret memo did not deal with targeted killings, but with the interrogation practices of the CIA, which it justified by adopting a narrow definition of torture. It was only after the memo emerged into the public sphere that its legal reasoning could be analyzed and critiqued. This process was so harrowing for the Bush Administration that the torture memos were recalled and superseded by more carefully drafted memos.

If we have learned anything over the past decade,.....

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