What legal argument authorized the targeting of an American citizen, Anwar al-Aulaqi, in Yemen? The Justice Department wrote a secret memorandum authorizing the lethal targeting of Anwar al-Aulaqi, the American-born radical cleric who was killed by a U.S. drone strike Friday, according to administration officials...
“What constitutes due process in this case is a due process in war,” said one of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss closely held deliberations within the administration...
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights argued on behalf of Aulaqi’s father last year that that there is no “battlefield” in Yemen, and that the administration should be forced to articulate publicly its legal standards for killing any citizen outside the United States who is suspected of terrorism.
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