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Tag: Targeted Assassination

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Targeted Killings: A Legal History

By Bill Blum —

Assassinations have long been regarded as a basic element of foreign relations that largely remained in the dark, unspoken of but widely practiced in response to perceived threats to national security.

Posted on Feb 14, 2013 READ MORE

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The Shooting Gallery: Obama and the Vanishing Point of Democracy

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —

We live at a time in the United States when the notion of political enemies has become a euphemism for dismantling prohibitions against targeted assassinations, torture, abductions and indefinite detention.

Posted on Feb 13, 2013 READ MORE

U.S. and Israel Push the Boundaries of International Law

By William Pfaff —

In 2009, the former head of the international law department of Israel’s military establishment, Daniel Reisner, said that “International law progresses through violations. We invented the targeted assassination thesis and we had to push it.”

Posted on Feb 12, 2013 READ MORE

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Greenwald Responds to the DOJ’s Targeted Killing Leak

The Department of Justice memo released by NBC News on Monday, which asserts the right of U.S. officials to kill American citizens without due process, “equates government accusations with guilt,” writes Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian.

Posted on Feb 5, 2013 READ MORE

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DOJ Memo Outlines Legal Case for Drone Strikes on Americans (Video)

The U.S. Justice Department has abandoned evidenced-based reasoning in an undated memo obtained by NBC News that argues for the right of the government to target and kill American citizens it simply deems to be terrorists.