Thursday, January 27, 2011

Anwar Awlaki Lawsuit Dismissed

I recently came across the following news item from December, which follows up on my September Nolan Chart article, "Challenging Obama's assassination policy":

Judge Dismisses Anwar al-Awlaki Targeted Killing Lawsuit | Mother Jones - Nick Baumann , Dec. 7, 1980

"On Tuesday, a judge dismissed the case, finding that Nasser al-Awlaki doesn't have the legal right to sue on his son's behalf. For now, it seems, the federal courts will defer to the Obama administration's implicit assertion that it has an unreviewable power to target and kill US citizens that it believes to be terrorists....

"Bates bought the government's argument that the younger al-Awlaki has meaningful access to the US legal system: supposedly, he can just go to the US embassy or email potential lawyers without fear of assassination. But ... even if Anwar al-Awlaki did turn himself in, Bates' promise to rule against him on state secrets grounds would mean he would still have no effective way to challenge his presence on the Obama administration's reported 'target list.'"

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