Obama apparently doesn't sign off on drone strikes now, CIA just does it themselves

I figured that would last about a month before he got bored of it. Sure enough.

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As much as I’m undelighted to hear that we don’t even feel the need to pretend that there is any sort of oversight or accountability over our clandestine agency’s worldwide extralegal assassination program; would it actually be better if Obama were signing off on them all?

History is not exactly without examples of countries were the fact that the secret death squads were El Presidente’s secret death squads didn’t really improve matters much.

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The Obama Administration told us that their interpretation of “due process” for assassinations is that somebody from the Executive Branch signs the order, so it shouldn’t matter whether the President put his rubber stamp on it or not. And the newly ratified Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, is no more likely to prosecute anybody for it that Holder was, nor do the Republicans have the guts to impeach anybody for it, because they’d have to admit that they don’t like due process either.

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