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The CIA, Assassination, and the War on Terrorism
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US intelligence chief: We can assassinate American citizens

ABC News

02/03/10

The director of national intelligence affirmed rather bluntly today that the U.S. intelligence community has authority to target American citizens for assassination if they present a direct terrorist threat to the United States. ‘We take direct actions against terrorists in the intelligence community; if … we think that direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that,’ Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the House Intelligence Committee...

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Civis Romanus Sum

AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

02/13/10

Obama’s decision to assassinate Americans overseas without any due process might well be viewed as an inevitable development from the established practice of killing foreigners using hellfire missiles fired from unmanned drones in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The United States has not declared war on any of those countries yet it reserves to itself the right to attack and kill local residents based on information that it does not subsequently have to reveal. This process is given a legal fig leaf by the US assertion that anyone connected to a terrorist group can be killed anywhere in the world and at any time. It assumes that in such matters the United States has extraterritorial jurisdiction, a claim that no other nation makes and which might reasonably be contested by those on the receiving end. It also does not require the President of the United States to prove his case that someone actually was a terrorist...

https://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/02/12/civis-romanus-sum/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Intelligence Chief: US Can Kill Americans Abroad

By Ellen Nakashima

Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair acknowledged Wednesday that government agencies may kill U.S. citizens abroad who are (allegedly) involved in terrorist activities if they are "taking action that threatens Americans."

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24590.htm



CIA Has Program to Assassinate U.S. Citizens

By Thomas R. Eddlem

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has maintained an assassination list of U.S. citizens for the last eight year and has actually assassinated Americans, according to January 27 Washington Post story.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24591.htm



What Americans Really Have to Fear

By Scott Fina

Nothing is more detrimental to American freedom and security than a military that ignores the rights of peaceful and lawful citizens.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24589.htm



Interagency teams can now question terror suspects

Interrogators from the CIA, the FBI and the Defense Department, with expertise in a particular country and jidahist group, will assemble background information on each suspect on the list even before he or she is apprehended, two officials said. The teams will create a preauthorized strategy for each target.

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US Government Death Lists for USA Citizens

By Professor Francis A. Boyle

The Bush Administration reduced the United States of America to a Banana Republic waging a "dirty war" around the world in gross violation of international law, human rights law, and the laws of war.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24635.htm



"The CIA Is Welcoming Itself Back onto American University Campuses"

The anthropologist David Price reveals the US intelligence community has established academic outposts at twenty-two US universities over the past four years.

https://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/9/david_price_on_how_the_cia



Top 10 Problems with America Killing Its Own Citizens

By David Swanson

Assassinating non-Americans is just as illegal as assassinating Americans.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24668.htm



The Road to Armageddon

By Paul Craig Roberts

If the U.S. government can murder its citizens abroad it can murder them at home, and has done so.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24872.htm



Can Obama Assassinate Americans?

By Nat Hentoff

The executive branch alone decides who shall die instantly. And there are no defense attorneys to raise objections, even when an American citizen is marked for oblivion.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24888.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Legal Experts Slam "Targeted Killings" of US Citizens
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/05-11

Congressman Dennis Kucinich Challenges Potential Extrajudicial Killing of Americans
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/02/05-6



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The judge will be acting on complaints lodged by a number of associations, focussing on one prisoner, Ahmed Abderraman Hamed, who has Spanish nationality, the source added, confirming a report published in daily El Pais.

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"We Can Make Him Disappear"

By Andrew Joad

Legal professionals struggling to assist these people found captives chained together. They are continuously rotated between the below-ground parking ramp detention pen and locals jails, to which they are transported in unlabeled and windowless vans.

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By Mark Weisbrot

When I write about US foreign policy in places such as Haiti or Honduras, I often get responses from people who find it difficult to believe that the US government would care enough about these countries to try and control or topple their governments.

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Muscling Latin America

In recent years, Washington has experienced a fast erosion of its influence in South America, driven by the rise of Brazil, the region's left turn, the growing influence of China and Venezuela's use of oil revenue to promote a multipolar diplomacy.

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U.S. Plunges Central America Back To Era Of Coups And Death Squads

By Rick Rozoff

The 2002 coup in Venezuela and the 2009 coup in Honduras are not the last that Washington will support given the opportunity. Latin American vigilance and unity are required more than ever before.

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U.S. covering up reality in Honduras

State Department campaign denies the systemic repression that continues, nine months after coup.

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By Tom Burghardt

Despite overwhelming evidence of lawbreaking by the secret state and their corporate partners, on January 21 U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker tossed out the EFF's lawsuit, Jewell v. NSA, filed on behalf of AT&T customers fighting the National Security Agency's illegal operations that target millions of citizens' phone calls, emails and web searches.

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By Chris Hedges

The symbiotic relationship between the press and the power elite worked for nearly a century. It worked as long as our power elite, no matter how ruthless or insensitive, was competent. But once our power elite became incompetent and morally bankrupt, the press, along with the power elite, lost its final vestige of credibility. The press became, as seen in the Iraq war and the aftermath of the financial upheavals, a class of courtiers.

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War Spending Surges in Obama's Budget

By DAVID ROGERS

In 2011 alone, the revised numbers are triple what the president included in his spending plan a year ago.

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Afghanistan War Shapes Engorged Defense Budget While Domestic Programs Freeze

War spending is exempt from the president's proposed spending freeze, despite President Obama's statement at West Point that, "we can't simply afford to ignore the price of these wars."

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Obama seeks record $708 billion in defense budget

President Barack Obama on Monday asked Congress to approve a record $708 billion in defense spending for fiscal year 2011, including a 3.4 percent increase in the Pentagon's base budget and $159 billion to fund U.S. military missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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From Information Clearing House

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US budget 'draws picture of nation that simply cannot get above water'
https://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9376/

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'Peace Prize' President Submits Largest War Budget Ever
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/01-9

Don't Call It a 'Defense' Budget
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/02



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By Prof Peter Dale Scott

The war on terror and the war on drugs have this in common: both are ideological attempts to justify the needless killings of thousands - including both American troops and foreign civilians -- in another needless war.

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The 9/11 Hijackers are Alive?

Video Interview With Dr. David Ray Griffin

According to the chief of Japans Democratic Party who says that the 9/11 hijackers are alive and that 9/11 was a complete hoax. Dr. David Ray Griffin is a professor and author who wrote The New Pearl Harbor Revisited and he says that he agrees; the World Trade Center was a hoax.

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Hijacking Democracy to Spy on Americans

Shahid Buttar, Truthout: "Nearly a decade ago, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) stood alone as the Senate's constitutional conscience. Casting the only dissenting vote against passage of the Patriot Act in 2001, he was powerless to stop an opportunistic power grab by neoconservatives who had long sought, well before the tragedy of 9/11, to expand our government's reach into the lives of law-abiding Americans."

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Review: "Rounded Up: Artificial Terrorists and Muslim Entrapment After 9/11"

Katherine Hughes, Truthout: "In a time and place where Muslims have learned it's prudent to be silent, we should be especially grateful to Shamshad Ahmad for having the courage to write his book, 'Rounded Up.' The book opens with a quote from the Prophet Muhammad, 'The highest form of jihad is to speak the truth in the face of an unjust ruler,' and Ahmad's book is the embodiment of this quote. Understated and powerful, with respect for fact, each page is testament to his belief that the truth can indeed set us free."

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ACLU Sues for Records About Government's Use of Unconstitutional Spying Powers
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By Daniel Tencer

A Detroit-area imam who died in a shootout with the FBI in October was shot 21 times -- at least once in the back -- and found by police lying down with his wrists in handcuffs behind him, says a local Detroit news report.

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I Call It Murder

By Cynthia McKinney

They shot this Black man in his genitals and in his back. It sounds like a hate crime to me. How else could one describe it?

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