Amy Goodman
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Can the President Strike an American Anywhere in the World?: Drone Memo Raises Troubling Questions
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7:30Now PlayingDuring a three month span in 2011, U.S. drones killed four American citizens overseas. On September 30, cleric Anwar alAwlaki and Samir Khan were killed in a drone strike in Yemen. Two weeks later, another U.S. drone killed Anwar's 16yearold son, Abdulrahman, in Yemen. A month later, a U.S. citizen named Jude Kenan Mohammad was killed in Pakistan. For the past twoandahalf years, the Obama administration has refused to release its legal rationale for killing American citizens overseas. That changed on Monday when a federal court released a heavily redacted 41page memo. It concludes the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force gave the U.S. government the authority to target Anwar alAwlaki, who the Obama administration claims had joined alQaeda. On Capitol Hill, Sen. Ron Wyden praised the release of the memo but said it raises many questions. Wyden asked, "How much evidence does the president need to determine that a particular American is a legitimate target for military action? Can the president strike an American anywhere in the world?" Questions also remain over when the United States can kill nonU.S. citizens. We speak to Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project.
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