With Presidential Drones, Who Needs Judges? | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary

With Presidential Drones, Who Needs Judges? | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary: "This case concerns the executive's asserted authority to carry out 'targeted killings' of U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism far from any field of armed conflict."

"Individuals, including U.S. citizens, are added to the ("kill") lists based on executive determinations that secret criteria have been satisfied. Executive officials (Leon Panetta and Robert Gates as well) are invested with sweeping authority to impose extrajudicial death sentences in violation of the Constitution and international law."