> Obama ordered a drone strike targeting and killing a US citizen, Anwar > al-Awlaki. His son (who was 16) was also killed is a subsequent drone > strike but it is not clear that he was specifically targeted. Eric Holder > has publicly admitted that al-Awlaki was targeted and that they knew he was > a citizen. His citizenship was never revoked. The administration justified > it under rules of war being conducted on foreign soil.
Citizen or not, I think he'd have a pretty good defense if this was the basis for impeachment. After all, government representatives kill US Citizens all the time when they present an imminent danger to the public (e.g. police officers kill Citizens in the line of duty all the time). I'd say that directly assisting a terrorist organization with the goal of planning and executing terrorist attacks qualifies as presenting an imminent danger. The argument that others are bringing up about holding him responsible for defaulting on the debt is more complex and I don't fully understand how that works, but even that sounds more plausible than taking out a terrorist (citizen or not). -Justin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:367785 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
