Trump Is Inheriting Power to Assassinate Anyone, Including US Citizens, With No Oversight
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By John Knefel, TruthoutÂ
(Image: Lauren Walker / Truthout; Adapted: Charles Tilford)
Of all the people the United States government killed in the eight years of Barack Obama's presidency, one of the most controversial targets was Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen and imam who at the time of his death had become the face of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The US killed Awlaki in a drone strike in late September of 2011 -- despite having never charged him with a crime or presented evidence of his guilt in court -- marking what The New York Times described as the "first time since the Civil War [that] the United States government had carried out the deliberate killing of an American citizen as a wartime enemy and without a trial."
Now, as President-elect Donald Trump prepares...