"New reality: US assassinates it own citizens with no due process."

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 New reality: US assassinates it own citizens with no due process – Boing Boing: "...Whether or not al-Awlaki was a terrorist (something no court can determine now), this sets a new precedent: the US can assassinate its own citizens on presidential order without any due process or accountability."

A Secret Panel Put Anwar al-Awlaki, Others, on Government Kill List - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine: "Jacob Sullum of course recently summed up the potental uses of this power:  "While Awlaki may have been guilty of everything the administration claims, it is not hard to imagine how a program of classified, unreviewable death decrees might go awry, especially in the service of a perpetual, geographically undefined war against an amorphous enemy. "