Money graf: "Few things are as dangerous to American liberty as the proposition that the government should be able to kill citizens anywhere in the world on the basis of legal standards and evidence that are never submitted to a court, either before or after the fact. Anyone willing to trust President Obama with the power to secretly declare an American citizen an enemy of the state and order his extrajudicial killing should ask whether they would be willing to trust the next president with that dangerous power."
Unfortunately, too few people on the Right are willing to disagree with with it because, yes, they want the next president (presumably one of their own) to have that power, and too few on the Left are willing to disagree with it because they don't want to seem to be attacking/weakening Obama.
Obama's expansion of executive "War on Terror" powers has been one of the worst aspects of his presidency, and one that is much more likely to have a lasting negative impact on the US than any of the things he's being attacked on by his various GOP opponents. Unfortunately, the only substantive candidate who'd be likely to disassemble this particular policy is Ron Paul — and for all I know he'd simply devolve the power to state government. #ddtb
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NEW YORK – In a speech today at Northwestern University School of Law, Attorney General Eric Holder spoke on national security issues and …