Can Obama Order Executions of Citizens Abroad? | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary

Can Obama Order Executions of Citizens Abroad? | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary: "It's the much-maligned Glenn Beck who called this one correctly. On a recent show, the excitable Tea Party guru had 'no problem' with killing American terrorist suspects on the battlefield: 'But away from the battlefield? ... Call me a little nostalgic for the Constitution.'"

"But as Kevin Williamson writes at NRO, it's not so much 'what this administration might do with such power, but what an administration 50 years down the road might do with it.' In a seemingly endless war, the powers we cede now could be available to future presidents in perpetuity."