{"id":17954,"date":"2013-01-27T04:44:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=17954"},"modified":"2013-01-28T05:07:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T13:07:57","slug":"judge-jury-executioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/27\/judge-jury-executioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge, jury &amp; executioner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b>Could he [Mr. Obama] order the targeted killing of an American citizen [cleric Anwar al-Awlaki], in a country with which the United States was not at war [Yemen], in secret and without the benefit of a trial?<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The Justice Department&#8217;s Office of Legal Counsel prepared a lengthy memo justifying that extraordinary step, asserting that <strong>while <\/strong><b>the Fifth Amendment&#8217;s guarantee of due process applied, it could be satisfied by internal deliberations in the executive branch.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Mr. Obama gave his approval<\/strong>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/29\/world\/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=all\">Secret Kill List&#8217; Tests Obama&#8217;s Principles &#8211; NYTimes.com <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, judge, jury and executioner.<\/p>\n<p>That used to un-American, not to mention illegal &#8212; AND a really bad idea. What happened?<\/p>\n<p><!-- C:\\USR\\WP_DOCS\\TROLLEY\\BLOGS\\ANTIWAR --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could he [Mr. Obama] order the targeted killing of an American citizen [cleric Anwar al-Awlaki], in a country with which the United States was not at war [Yemen], in secret and without the benefit of a trial? The Justice Department&#8217;s Office of Legal Counsel prepared a lengthy memo justifying that extraordinary step, asserting that while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"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":[105,6,59,171,131,50,63,16],"tags":[340],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-17954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-civil-liberties","category-covert-action","category-dictatorship","category-obama","category-pakistan","category-war-at-home","category-terrorism","tag-yemen"],"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\/17954","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17954"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17965,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954\/revisions\/17965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17954"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}