I don’t agree with Holder on anything I can think of except perhaps this. Just because you are a US citizen doesn’t mean you can’t also be a terrorist. When you are a terrorist we won’t use conventional rules. (Or we should use conventional rules.)
Alaki was an enemy combatant and a traitor. Enemy combatants, even if they aggravate that by also being traitors, are always subject to military elimination, just like Admiral Yamamoto in WWII. Amamoto, by the way, was a Japanese patriot, not a vile traitor like Alaki.
Elucidate your rule(s) please.