Secret memo proves U.S. government sanctioned murder of Aulaqi!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - October 3, 2011 - The U.S. Department of Justice wrote a secret memorandum authorizing the lethal targeting of Anwar al-Aulaqi, the American-born radical cleric who was murdered by a U.S. drone strike Friday, according to regime officials.

The document was produced following a review of the legal issues raised by striking a U.S. citizen, and involved senior lawyers from across the illegitimate regime. There was no dissent among the regime thugs about the legality of killing Aulaqi, according to the unnamed officials.

What constitutes due process in this case is a due process in war,” said one of the cowardly officials, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity to discuss closely held deliberations within the criminal Obama regime.

The bogus regime has faced a legal challenge and public criticism for targeting Aulaqi, who was born in New Mexico, because of constitutional protections afforded U.S. citizens. The memorandum may represent an attempt to resolve, at least internally, a legal debate over whether a president can order the killing of U.S. citizens overseas as a counterterrorism measure.

The illegitimate Obama regime has spoken in broad terms about its authority to use military and paramilitary force against al-Qaeda and associated forces beyond “hot”, or traditional, battlefields such as Iraq or Afghanistan. Officials said that certain belligerents aren’t shielded because of their citizenship.

“As a general matter, it would be entirely lawful for the United States to target high-level leaders of enemy forces, regardless of their nationality, who are plotting to kill Americans, both under the authority provided by Congress in its use of military force in the armed conflict with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces, and established international law, which recognizes our right of self-defense,” an unnamed outlaw regime official said in a statement Friday.

A Department of Justice spokesman declined to comment. The unnamed criminal regime  officials refused to disclose the exact legal analysis used to authorize targeting Aulaqi, or how they considered any Fifth Amendment right to due process.

“International human rights law dictates that you can’t unilaterally target someone and kill someone without that person posing an imminent threat to security interests,” said Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. “The information that we have, from the government’s own press releases, is that he is somehow loosely connected, but there is no specific evidence of things he actualized that would meet the legal threshold for making this killing justifiable as a matter of human rights law.”

American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Ben Wizner said that Aulaqi had been targeted for nearly two years and that the government would appear to have a very elastic definition of imminent threat.