It is established policy via the "Bush Doctrine" that we make no distinction between terrorists and foreign governments that harbor terrorism. Therefore, it has been established policy for basically a decade that we will target identified terrorists in places like Yemen if the local governments will not work with us to capture them.
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Does the US Government Have the Right to Kill American Citizens with Drone Strikes
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It is established policy via the "Bush Doctrine" that we make no distinction between terrorists and foreign governments that harbor terrorism. Therefore, it has been established policy for basically a decade that we will target identified terrorists in places like Yemen if the local governments will not work with us to capture them.
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Didn't this all kind of get discussed on pages 1-4 or so?
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Obama to nominate Jeh Johnson, former Pentagon official, as next DHS secretary
President Obama will nominate Jeh Johnson, formerly the Pentagon’s top lawyer and a key figure in the administration’s debate over the legality of drone use, to head the Department of Homeland Security, according to White House officials.
The official announcement will take place Friday at the White House. Johnson, if confirmed by the Senate, would succeed Janet Napolitano, who announced she was leaving the Cabinet post in July.
As the former Defense Department general counsel, Johnson was responsible for the legal work at the nation’s largest bureaucracy. His job placed him at the center of some of Obama’s most important national security decisions, from the practice of targeted killings beyond America’s defined battlefields to the intervention in Libya.
Johnson was also involved in one of the most controversial counterterrorism questions of Obama’s first term, whether the United States could use an armed drone to kill a U.S. citizen who had joined al-Qaeda.
He and others concluded that the U.S. government had the authority to carry out a strike on Anwar al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and became a senior figure in al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen before being killed in a joint CIA-U.S. military operation in 2011.
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President Obama will nominate Jeh Johnson, formerly the Pentagon’s top lawyer and a key figure in the administration’s debate over the legality of drone use, to head the Department of Homeland Security, according to White House officials.
The official announcement will take place Friday at the White House. Johnson, if confirmed by the Senate, would succeed Janet Napolitano, who announced she was leaving the Cabinet post in July.
As the former Defense Department general counsel, Johnson was responsible for the legal work at the nation’s largest bureaucracy. His job placed him at the center of some of Obama’s most important national security decisions, from the practice of targeted killings beyond America’s defined battlefields to the intervention in Libya.
Johnson was also involved in one of the most controversial counterterrorism questions of Obama’s first term, whether the United States could use an armed drone to kill a U.S. citizen who had joined al-Qaeda.
He and others concluded that the U.S. government had the authority to carry out a strike on Anwar al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and became a senior figure in al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen before being killed in a joint CIA-U.S. military operation in 2011.
© The Washington Post Company
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What You Need to Know About Obama’s New Homeland Security Nominee
President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the next Homeland Security secretary has been a staunch defender of the U.S. drone program as a Pentagon lawyer and spoke out against enhanced judicial oversight of the program after leaving government service.
President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the next Homeland Security secretary has been a staunch defender of the U.S. drone program as a Pentagon lawyer and spoke out against enhanced judicial oversight of the program after leaving government service.
