That is as wrong as it gets. Do you ever think or look something up before you post?
Here are two, Oh! Salon!...there are more, but I’ll leave that to YOU, since you wrote a snarky post.
Bless your heart.
Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. citizen
http://www.salon.com/2010/04/07/assassinations_2/
and
U.S. Presidential Powers: Does President Obama claim the right to assassinate an American citizen who has not been charged with a specific crime?
Cliff Gilley, J.D. Criminal Law & Intellectual Property Law, Seattle University School of Law (2000)
Answered Mar 2 2014
Yes, under certain circumstance, if that American citizen is deemed an enemy combatant and is found on the US government’s “kill list” (otherwise known as the “disposition matrix”):
The database eliminates the prior system of dual (but not judicial) scrutiny by both The Pentagon and the National Security Council, instead using a “streamlined” system in which suspects are designated by multiple agencies and ultimately presented to Brennan and the Vice President.[1] The head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, responsible for carrying out orders to kill suspects on the list, no longer contributes to the decision of whether or not to kill them.[1]
Instead, the NCTC plays a greater role in determining targets, which they generate at the request of the White House. The criteria and decisions determining who may be targeted for killing are developed in large part by John Brennan, who “wields enormous power in shaping decisions on ‘kill’ lists and the allocation of armed drones”.[2] Targets are reviewed every three months with input from the CIA and JSOC, before being passed on top officials in the NCTC, CIA, JSOC, the National Security Council, Pentagon, and U.S. State Department.[1] Ultimately, the authority to kill a suspect outside Pakistan must be approved by the President.[1]
The review process also allows the killing of individuals whose identities are unknown, but who are thought to be engaged in certain activities, for instance packing a vehicle with explosives.[1]
As reported previously, American citizens may be listed as targets for killing in the database.[7] Suspects are not formally charged of any crime or offered a trial in their own defense.[8] Obama administration lawyers have asserted that American citizens alleged to be members of Al Qaeda and said to pose an “imminent threat of violent attack” against the United States may be killed without judicial process.[9] The legal arguments of US officials for this policy were leaked to NBC News in February 2013, in the form of briefing papers summarizing legal memos from October 2011.[9]