Today's longread tackles another difficult issue in international politics -- to what extent does the War on Terrorism grant the executive the ability to kill abroad? What happens when the target is an American citizen? This article makes a strong case for why the current justification being used by the Obama administration provides for far-reaching and dangerous deployments of executive power.
"An Executive Power to Kill" by David Cole
Published in the New York Review of Books, March 6, 2012
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/mar/06/targeted-killings-holder-speech/
Eric
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