Obama's Targeted Killings in Yemen | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary

Obama's Targeted Killings in Yemen | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary: "'So the president claims the power to order U.S. citizens killed anywhere in the world, while engaged even in the most benign activities carried out far away from any actual battlefield, based solely on his say-so and with no judicial oversight or other checks.'

In addition to the corollary death of innocent civilians, these strikes do kill terrorists, don't they? But Greenwald reminds us, it is 'the U.S. Government (that) has accused them of being a terrorist.'

On what evidence? Remember Donald Rumsfeld assuring us 'the worst of the worst' were being held at Guantanamo Bay? But, as Greenwald notes, federal judges reviewing habeas petitions of prisoners there have found, in some cases, 'an almost complete lack of evidence to justify the accusations against them.'"