In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee today, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told representatives that American citizens can be assassinated by the US government when they are oveseas.
Blair Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R – MI) inquired about the procedures involved, asking what the legal framework was under which Americans could be killed by the intelligence community.
Blair insisted that under no circumstances would Americans be assassinated overseas for criticizing the government, adding “we don’t target people for free speech.” Rather they are subject to assassination when the government decides they are a threat and when they “get specific permission.” Exactly who was giving that permission was unclear.
The question has been increasingly important as the Obama Administration attempts to help the Yemeni government assassinate Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born cleric who is not accused of any crimes by the US government. The administration maintains that secret evidence exists linking Awlaki to terrorism.
There seems to be a chilling lack of oversight in the procedure behind these killings, however, Blair’s assurances against politically motivated assassinations aside. The US has killed Americans in overseas attacks before, but only as “collateral damage.” It has never admitted to explicitly assassinating an American citizen before, though it seems that the policy is in place and such killings are only a matter of time.
So when those tea partiers put a Hitler moustache on a photo of Obama, it wasn't much of an exaggeration.
Obama is Dick Cheney's love child. That's why he won't show the birth certificate! ;-D
For more than 200 years America was a beacon for people from all over the world who strove for freedom and democracy. In the past decade it has sunken (at least morally) to a position lower than Nazi Germany, where extrajudicial killings of Germans was not permitted,and on a par with Stalin's Russia, where everybody could be arrested and killed based on administrative decision of the NKVD. The difference is now only in numbers – but this may change). You cannot possibly imagine what a disappointment it is for millions of people in Europe and elsewhere who cherished their lifelong sympathy and admiration for America.
Remember, Peter, nothing prevents the Corporate-State Fascists who really run things, the 'vampire squid with its feeding tube shoved down our throats', from committing extra-judicial assassination with mercenary forces available on-call anywhere in the world you're traveling,
or even right in your living room, choking on a bag of GMO corn chips and HFCS soda pop.
The Obama Soviet is a different creature altogether. The Fascists just want all our savings.
ObamaRahmans are interested in our very souls, and those of our children & grandchildren.
In admitting that unnamed US agencies could kill US citizens, Blair said: "We're not careless about endangering American lives as we try to carry out the policies to protect most of the country."
Let me quote:
"A person who, being a national of the United States, kills or attempts to kill a national of the United States while such national is outside the United States but within the jurisdiction of another country shall be punished as provided under sections 1111, 1112, and 1113."
Title 18 USC Sec. 1119(b).
By stating that "we try to carry out the policies," meaning murders, Blair has alos admitted to the following crime;:
"Conspiracy to murder__If two or more persons conspire to violate section 1111, 1114, 1116, or 1119 of this title, and one or more of such persons do any overt act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years or for life. "
Title 18 USC Sec 1117.
Clap the fucker in irons. Obama too.
Unbelievable. How did we get to screw up 200+ years of organic rule of law in the span of a single decade is beyond belief, not to mention the sudden evaporation of the respect this country once inspired to millions around the world. THAT ALONE was worth 10 divisions.
This is a scarey as anything I've seen in a long time. It won't be long before politically unpopular historians, economists, and even climate scientists (labelled "deniers") will be considered threats.
Is it suppose to be reassuring to know there are "procedures" in place? They no longer even pretend that this is a country of laws. It is a kleptocracy ruled by criminals..
Amen zouppie…………..
Don't worry. They get permission before plugging someone. And it's based on secret evidence. What could go wrong?
Next step is targeting Americans in America using the terrorism/threat-to-national-security scapegoat.
What will the threat be? Trying to take money out of a bank?
"Blair said the comments were intended to “reassure” Americans that there was a “set of defined policy and legal procedures” in place and that such assassinations are always carried out by the book." This really belongs to Bizarro world. Assassinations by the book! So this means that the US government is really a criminal organization for all practical purposes. So much for the respect for the American Constitution and international law. What then is the difference between them and al-Qaeda or other terrorist organizations? This was boundto happen. When the US started breaching laws, American citizens couldn't care less thinking that the war on terror requiered it. After all, the browns had asked for it. However, this was a boomerang which eventually had to hit the thrower. Welcome to the real world then.
If our Amerikan government no longer must obey law, national or international, none of us do. Full blown treason and anarchy rule supreme.
all part of Obamas Job Creation Initiative. new Job description ? Legal Sniper.
you still talking n a z i s ?
I feel soooo much more secure now that scum Amerikans who speak out against the government, or otherwise do anything that appears to be trying to act on the truth of the real condition of ruled by criminals Amerika, can be executed by those who have hijacked the country…………………I'm moving back to Switzerland!
Study the face of Blair. He could easily be standing next to Herr Hitler!
Yes I suppose they are talking about the America that came into effect after the successful coup d'etat in 1963.
Amerika is bereft of any credibility on the world stage. I would be ashamed to be Amerikan. Corruption, hate, stupidity, is it any wonder the world tries to keep these nutbars at arms length any wonder at all.
That is how one is supposed to deal with 'Control Freaks', stay busy and do not give them the time of day.
What is the logical deduction of such an admission? It seems quite simple. – No American is safe any longer, no matter where he or she is…at home or abroad.
We have become a country of torturers, and killers functioning on a mode of repression.
It is like some nightmarish tale out of the history of the Borgias. Imagine what history will have to say about us!
Blare makes assassinating people America doesn't like…..sound as if it's regular business. Hey folks, nothin to worry about, we're doin it by the book..!!! AAhh…… Can we get a copy of this book yer usin please…..???? UUUhhh…I see.. it's clasified..??!!…. So there is no way for US [WE The People] to know if YOU are in fact followin this secret book…. There is another book uknow…… USC Title 18 that covers the aforementioned subject too.
TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 51
§ 1111. Murder
(a) Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait, or any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing; or committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, escape, murder, kidnapping, treason, espionage, sabotage, aggravated sexual abuse or sexual abuse, child abuse, burglary, or robbery; or perpetrated as part of a pattern or practice of assault or torture against a child or children; or perpetrated from a premeditated design unlawfully and maliciously to effect the death of any human being other than him who is killed, is murder in the first degree.
What have we turned into that someone can without shame or irony appear before Congress and say such things? "Oh, don't be afraid to go abroad. It's okay to criticize the country." I can think of two traditions, no three, all somewhat related, which engaged in this stuff: the Byzantine Empire, the Soviet Empire, and, more recently glamorized in films like Munich, the Israelis. And now, like monkey-see, monkey-do, we are resorting to this crap.
Well, time to throw this into the sea, a foreign import which we do not want.
If you believe this, he probably has a bridge to sell you as well: Blair insisted that under no circumstances would Americans be assassinated overseas for criticizing the government, adding “we don’t target people for free speech.”
There are untold numbers who have already been snuffed out, or imprisoned in the gulags here called federal prisons, while exercising their free speech rights. Of course, they are first smeared with bogus charges such as being terrorists, or giving material support to same.
Ah, reading further, perchance I've misunderstood the motives of our leaders, 'tis instead noblesse oblige: "….Rather they are subject to assassination when the government decides they are a threat…"
You can be sure that if this "policy" is now publicly announced, these basTURDS have been carrying it out covertly for a while already!
the united states was implicated in the deaths of its citizens in chile, nicaragua, and in the immediate cold war period. it makes little difference when the cia gives the go ahead to a foreign power–or whether they pull the trigger themselves.. sorry : there is precedent for state sponsored murder of the citizenry here…..
what are they defending there new world order, that that foreign son of a bitch thinks… whatever.
if you an american, your a threat, because you can get a gun as an american, and your a threat.
Fuck these son of bitches.
In July of 2002, I met the DC Snipers in Vancouver, BC. I did not know them before then and had nothing to do with their plans, yet there I am on surveillance footage with them, discussing John Muhammed's plan. It was HIS plan, not mine and not the boy's . The next day, I tried desperately to get a BIG Vancouver Police Officer to help the boy, yet the big cop laughed and turned his BIG back. Can the Americans assassinate this cop? He is implicated in aiding the murderers of Americans citizens by his refusal to stop them when HE HAD the CHANCE. If the American Government wants to assassinate someone RESPONSIBLE for attacks such as the DC Snipers pulled off, they will have to kill the stupid cop, not me. I tried to do the right thing and the cop WOULDN'T do the right thing to save American lives. I am a GOOD citizen and would make a better cop than the big ugly beast working for the VPD. If I AM assassinated by my own government it isn't because I am a terrorist, it is because I know how the FBI refused to stop the 911 attacks when THEY HAD the CHANCE. Maybe they should be offed since they have done no good in stopping ANY attack. I TIRED to tell the FBI about the 911 attacks after having met the 911 terrorists on a Greyhound bus in Canada in August of 1999. Read my blog 'Fatwah' on blogspot. It seems the FBI are complicit. If I am killed by my own government it is because I know of the FBI's involvement (due to a lack of doing their jobs properly) in the 911 attacks. The FBI do NOT take accurate reports of terrorism seriously. Why is that? Since I knew the FBI would not take me seriously I did NOT try to tell them about the DC snipers; it would have been a huge waste of my time to try. The FBI are simply NOT INTERESTED. So how does someone warn of an imminent attack? There doesn't seem to be a viable way to report terrorism. I have some info the FBI should WANT to know about terrorists here in Vancouver and they DON'T WANT TO KNOW, plain and simple. So I cannot tell them what I know. Why IS THAT???
The FBI are an arrogant bunch of rednecks that couldn't figure out how to get to the next corner, let alone stop a terrorist attack. Why are the FBI SOOOO ARROGANT? Don't they WANT to do their jobs? THEY are the ones we are supposed to report to, but why do they not take reports from ordinary citizens? Have they got a 'Stupid Complex' or something? Can't listen to anyone who knows something because they didn't come up with it first? What is it with the FBI? How does their stupid arrogance HELP them do their jobs? Seems as if their arrogance is GETTING IN THE WAY OF THEIR DOING THEIR JOBS.
There IS no way to tell the FBI anything truthful, accurate and concise (easy stuff for them to check out) because THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW.
I would truly like to see the criteria used by the government to label Americans 'terrorist'. What criteria allows them to carry out these assassinations? Where is it posted in Obama's 'transparent' organization? Shouldn't Americans be told what constitutes their being labeled a 'terrorist'? To kill them without letting them know what a government expects, is WRONG. So where is the layout of criteria that constitutes an American abroad as being a 'terrorist'? I want to see it. Show me my dear transparent president.
Can't you just hear all the Americans around the world getting ready to be gunned down anywhere they are found. *CLICK*
With a government like that who needs terrorists.
Blair said the comments were intended to “reassure” Americans that there was a “set of defined policy and legal procedures” in place and that such assassinations are always carried out by the book.
Hey so was JFK's assassination.