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Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Last week, I wrote about a revelation buried in a Washington Post article by Dana Priest which described how the Obama administration has adopted the Bush policy of targeting selected American citizens for assassination if they are deemed (by the Executive Branch) to be Terrorists.  As The Washington Times' Eli Lake reports, Adm. Dennis Blair was asked about this program at a Congressional hearing yesterday and he acknowledged its existence:


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 01:24:04 PM EST
I wonder if these are the last days where the American Constitution can be dimly discerend in the behaviour USA, or might there be some sort of backlash towards the government being subject to the law ?

It's saddening, almost frightening, to see the huge disconnect between what the polls say the american people want and what the US govt, be it rep or Dem, is prepared to give them, or even consider possible to give them.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 02:57:33 PM EST
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