Administration Says It Can Kill Citizens Abroad Without Trial

This might be scarier than any unemployment or debt chart you'll see.

"The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process." Attorney General Eric Holder, March 5, 2012.

I couldn't imagine the outrage by Democrats if this had been the Bush administration claiming such authority.  Holder went on to justify his reasoning by claiming the war on terror is limitless, without boundaries and knows no border.  "We are at war with a stateless enemy, prone to shifting operations from country to country," he stated.

This is War Without End.  That's why I've said time and time again the NDAA's indefinite detention clause is minute compared to its statutory claim of forever war.  I don't think anyone can argue that we aren't at war.  We surely are.  Whether it's been formally declared by Congress is pointless.  Congress granted the president broad authority in September 2001 with the AUMF.  Since then, each NDAA has confirmed such Congressional authority for the president to wage war.  Congress successfully and legally signed off on all of it.  So now we find ourselves in a very broad war-- a war without borders-- where even citizens of the United States as long as they are not on our soil can and will be killed.




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