"Assassination" is explicitly against US national security policy, since Ford, but Congress has stealthily not defined assassination #drones
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Replying to @muckrakery
Oh, sorry, realize now you were live tweeting.
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Replying to @muckrakery
No no no! Misrepresenting US "ban" on assassination as anything worth the spit in your cheek jowl.
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Replying to @emptywheel @muckrakery
I did nothing of the sort. I said it was a toothless EO to placate libs and prevent actually legislating it
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correct me if my tweet isn't the spirit of the matter. Important everyone understands.https://twitter.com/muckrakery/status/732730085464256512 …
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Replying to @muckrakery @emptywheel
it is. But the context is important. They used an EO to avoid accountability. It's Twitter though ;)
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Or Congress permitted an EO to buy them off, which is especially important now in surveillance context. @muckrakery
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