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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (273606)	1/27/2010 10:45:11 AM
From: Hawkmoon	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

After the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush gave the CIA, and later the military, authority to kill U.S. citizens abroad if strong evidence existed that an American was involved in organizing or carrying out terrorist actions against the United States or U.S. interests, military and intelligence officials said. . . . The Obama administration has adopted the same stance. If a U.S. citizen joins al-Qaeda, "it doesn't really change anything from the standpoint of whether we can target them," a senior administration official said. "They are then part of the enemy." And you have a problem with this? Hawk