Center For Constitutional Rights Condemns Targeted Assassination Of U.S.-Born Al-Awlaki

The Center for Constitutional Rights had challenged the right to target a U.S. citizen for assassination in federal court.

“The assassination of Anwar Al-Awlaki by American drone attacks is the latest of many affronts to domestic and international law,” said Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. “The targeted assassination program that started under President Bush and expanded under the Obama Administration essentially grants the executive the power to kill any U.S. citizen deemed a threat, without any judicial oversight, or any of the rights afforded by our Constitution. If we allow such gross overreaches of power to continue, we are setting the stage for increasing erosions of civil liberties and the rule of law.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.