{"id":717,"date":"2013-02-05T05:15:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T05:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/05\/exclusive-justice-department-memo-reveals-legal\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:26:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:26:47","slug":"exclusive-justice-department-memo-reveals-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2013\/02\/05\/exclusive-justice-department-memo-reveals-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be \u201csenior operational leaders\u201d\u00a0of al-Qaida or \u201can associated force\u201d – even if there is no\u00a0intelligence\u00a0indicating they\u00a0are\u00a0engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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See on Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be \u201csenior operational leaders\u201d\u00a0of al-Qaida or \u201can associated force\u201d – even … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":924,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/08\/05\/leaked-mpaa-memo-reveals-tv-shack-press-strategy\/","url_meta":{"origin":717,"position":0},"title":"Leaked MPAA Memo Reveals TV-Shack Press Strategy | TorrentFreak","author":"aslam","date":"August 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesSee on torrentfreak.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1651,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/02\/a-memo-on-torture-to-john-yoo-vincent-iacopino\/","url_meta":{"origin":717,"position":1},"title":"A memo on torture to John Yoo | Vincent Iacopino | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk","author":"aslam","date":"June 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesFor starters, the US invasion of Iraq was justified, in part, on the basis of the false confession of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi who, under pain of torture, confessed to knowledge of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 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