Posted on 01/02/2013 8:54:15 PM PST by Seizethecarp
>> What the hell is happening to America?
The Leftist scum are in charge, and they’re behaving like tyrants.
“I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the executive branch of our government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret,”
Well then you should resign. The creep resulting from a series of precedents has to stop somewhere. The Constitution must trump precedent.
“Don’t you have to be in combat to be a combatant?”
Command and control in the enemy (al Qaeda) hierarchy counts as combatant...which is why Bush went after Saddam legally, it was argued.
BTW, it was disclosed today that Awlaki bought the pre-9/11 surveillance flight tickets for Atta and some of the “muscle”.
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