Tuesday, December 14, 2010

How Is It?

Question BookHow is it that judicial approval is required when the United States decides to target a U.S. citizen overseas for electronic surveillance, but ... judicial scrutiny is prohibited when the United States decides to target a U.S. citizen overseas for death?

-- Federal Judge John Bates, raising an unanswered question in the case of Anwar al-Awlaki, who is targeted for death by the US; Bates dismissed the suit after finding that Awlaki's father does not have legal standing to bring a case concerning his son, 7 December 2010

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