{"id":13775,"date":"2012-01-23T07:35:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T15:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=13775"},"modified":"2012-01-23T07:35:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T15:35:21","slug":"obama-to-explain-legal-reasoning-behind-awlaki-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/obama-to-explain-legal-reasoning-behind-awlaki-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to &#8216;Explain&#8217; Legal Reasoning Behind Awlaki Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/2012\/01\/22\/obama-team-to-break-silence-on-al-awlaki-killing.html\">Daily Beast<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>After months of internal debate, the Obama administration is planning to reveal publicly the legal reasoning behind its decision to kill the American-born leader of\u00a0al Qaeda\u00a0in the Arabian Peninsula,\u00a0Anwar al-Awlaki.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2012\/01\/23\/the-administrations-half-striptease-of-anwar-al-awlakis-rotting-corpse\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-administrations-half-striptease-of-anwar-al-awlakis-rotting-corpse\">Marcy Wheeler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The problem\u2013the problem that strikes at the very heart of democratic accountability\u2013is that the Administration plans to keep secret the details that would prove (or not) that Awlaki was what the Administration happily claims he is under the veil of anonymity, all while\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2011\/09\/30\/lots-of-senior-officials-spilling-state-secrets-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">claiming that precisely that information is a state secret<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/04\/hassle-free-justice-awlakis-rights-would-have-got-in-the-way-of-his-prosecution\/\">Me<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Awlaki would have been eligible for too many rights if placed on trial\u2026thus the decision for quick, easy, hassle-free murder&#8230;Considering the fact that the US military just came out with a study which concluded that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1011\/64970.html\">Awlaki\u2019s death will not weaken al Qaeda in the slightest<\/a>\u00a0and the fact that he was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,789427,00.html\">never an official member of al Qaeda<\/a>, yes it would have been difficult to get him convicted of something he was not. Furthermore, given available evidence, it\u2019s likely that Awlaki\u2019s supposed role as Inspiration Provider is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/politics.salon.com\/2011\/06\/01\/free_speech_4\/singleton\/\">protected speech under the First Amendment<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Beast: After months of internal debate, the Obama administration is planning to reveal publicly the legal reasoning behind its decision to kill the American-born leader of\u00a0al Qaeda\u00a0in the Arabian Peninsula,\u00a0Anwar al-Awlaki. Marcy Wheeler: The problem\u2013the problem that strikes at the very heart of democratic accountability\u2013is that the Administration plans to keep secret the details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13776,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13775\/revisions\/13776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13775"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}