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AP – Killing Americans: On uncharted ground in attack

A piece from the Associated Press via Yahoo News came out last night in which they were raising questions about the United States targeting, tracking, and killing one of its citizens.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama steered the nation’s war machine into uncharted territory Friday when a U.S. drone attacked a convoy in Yemen and killed two American citizens who had become central figures in al-Qaida.

It was believed to be the first instance in which a U.S. citizen was tracked and executed based on secret intelligence and the president’s say-so. And it raised major questions about the limitations of presidential power.

Anwar al-Awlaki, the target of the U.S. drone attack, was one of the best-known al-Qaida figures after Osama bin Laden. American intelligence officials had linked him to two nearly catastrophic attacks on U.S.-bound planes, an airliner on Christmas 2009 and cargo planes last year. The second American killed in the drone attack, Samir Kahn, was the editor of Inspire, a slick online magazine aimed at al-Qaida sympathizers in the West. Read the rest

I don’t believe for a minute this was “the first time.” The Cold War still holds many secrets.

I’m not so sure this is really a problem the way that some are making it to be. First off, Anwar al-Awlaki committed treason against the United States, that makes him a traitor. The penalty for committing an act of treason is death by hanging. So, he got what was due, and what he would have received had he been caught and brought back. All this action did was save time and money on an unnecessary trial or tribunal. Is it in a grayish area? You bet. But sometimes you have to do what needs to be done. Oh yeah, I’ll give credit where credit is due and tip my hat to Obama for making the call. He did the right thing.

Here’s something else to consider. Had we caught him and brought him back, would you really want the ACLU getting involved and mucking things up? You know as well as I, they would be on the side of the traitor.

Obama commits treason, violates oath of office

This asshole of a president needs to be hung for treason. What am I talking about? Giving away our sensitive military secrets to the Russians. He already did that with British military secrets, why should we think he wouldn’t do it with ours?

He is truly an amateur on the world stage, more embarrassing, weak, and appeasing than the Carter administration ever was. To the Russians, he’s a useful idiot with heavy emphasis on the word, idiot. I think by doing what he is doing is grounds for impeachment and charges of treason.

via Wikileaks News:

The Obama administration is freely giving Russia sensitive information about missile defense that weakens U.S. national security.

President Barack Obama’s administration recently threatened to veto the defense budget, citing “serious concerns” over provisions that limit the U.S. missile defense know-how that the White House is permitted to share with Moscow. This is the sort of information that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in his earlier days, would have assigned his spies to steal. Through its single-minded pursuit of “resetting” relations with Russia, the Obama administration may simply be willing to hand over this information and, in doing so, weaken U.S. national security.

Only two days after issuing the veto threat — and as Obama tried to warm Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to U.S. missile defense plans at the G-8 Summit in Deauville, France — the House of Representatives passed the defense bill. It included the provision that the president’s team finds so offensive: Section 1228 requires that no funds can be used to provide the Russian Federation with sensitive U.S. missile defense technology.

This act of congressional prudence did not come out of nowhere. The Senate debate over New START raised questions about what the Obama administration may have promised Moscow regarding U.S. missile defense plans. The debate stemmed from the treaty’s preamble, which linked offensive and defensive weapons, and a Russian unilateral statement that stated ratification of the treaty was conditional on whether the United States made improvements to its missile defense systems. In a treaty about reducing offensive weapons, it was clear the Russians required the Obama administration to include U.S. defenses in the bargain.

With that issue still unresolved, Congress discovered that the administration has been working on a missile defense agreement with the Russians and that Moscow had requested that the United States share with it loads of sensitive U.S. missile defense technology and operational authority as part of that deal. In the administration’s eagerness to please the Kremlin, it may just oblige.

The House of Representatives has given a firm “no” to that prospect through its decision to ignore Obama’s veto threat and approve the defense appropriations bill by a veto-proof vote of 322 to 96. The Senate may act similarly. On April 14, 39 Republican senators sent a letter to the president expressing their concern over the administration’s consideration of granting to the Russians sensitive U.S. technology and “red button” authority to prevent the interception of incoming missiles headed for U.S. troops or allies. This would allow Russia to deny the United States the ability to intercept a missile Washington had determined to be a threat.

The letter, spearheaded by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), requested the administration provide the Senate with assurances that it will not share sensitive information with Moscow. The senators cited the problem that sharing this information with Russia poses in light of its history of espionage and technological cooperation with Iran and Syria.

They’re right to be concerned. Tehran is thumbing its nose at Washington and doubling down on its missile program. The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, told a congressional panel in March that Iran “would likely choose missile delivery as its preferred method of delivering a nuclear weapon” and that the Islamic Republic “continues to expand the scale, reach and sophistication of its ballistic missile forces, many of which are inherently capable of carrying a nuclear payload.”

Russian assistance has contributed to the progress made by Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. Should the United States share critical information about its missile defenses with the Russians, a Russian entity — official or otherwise — could pass that information along to Tehran, enabling the Iranians to capitalize on the weaknesses in the U.S. system.

Nevertheless, the Obama administration continues to demonstrate its penchant for bargaining away missile defense, and the United States is not currently developing and deploying missile defense technology at the rate and quantity the threat demands. Full Story