On Tuesday, a US judge dismissed a major lawsuit by a US-born journalist challenging his placement on a US “kill list” and the government’s plans to assassinate him, after the Trump Administration invoked “state secrets” privilege to insist the details must remain secret.
Bilal Abdul Kareem, the journalist in question, had filed the lawsuit in 2017, seeking his removal from the “Disposition Matrix,” a secret list of people, including US citizens, that the president intends to kill. Abdul Kareem argued he was entitled to due process before being killed, and was challenging the process of killing citizens without notice or legal challenge.
The Trump Administration argued that the trial would reveal the “existence and operational details” of anti-terror operations. Prosecutors also argued that even admitting that Abdul Kareem is on the kill list would potentially compromise his future assassination by the government.
The judge confirmed that the Plaintiff had a serious challenge to this, but that as soon as the government cited state secrets, which was an “absolute” right, the case had to be dismissed. She added that there was no reason to accept lawyers’ proposal that people on the kill list have any due process protections.
Remarkable, in its’ disgusting truth.
Exactly, Dave Sullivan. We the People have every right to know whether or not any of us are on the Kill List .. And the Deep State has NO right to block the lawsuit challenging this crime.
I think this judges ruling is unconstitutional . Kareem better appeal this all the way to the supreme court and do it fast
This is why I love Antiwar, literally not one peep about this story among all the so called alternative media that is popular on Youtube. I guess they are too busy crying about the deep state trying to unseat president Trump to cover a silly story about Trump colluding with the state apparatus to normalize state murder of citizens without due process