Testing the Bounds of U.S. Citizenship

In the (unconfirmed) event anyone in the Obama administration is trying to annul the citizenship of any American recruited by al-Qaeda in order to kill him without legal encumbrance, the evidence is (mostly) clear: you can’t.

“If you’re an American citizen, we don’t take away your citizenship,” said Karen Greenberg, More…

Americans Assassinating Americans

Wow.

Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair acknowledged Wednesday that government agencies may kill U.S. citizens abroad who are involved in terrorist activities if they are “taking action that threatens Americans.”

Blair told members of the House intelligence committee that he was speaking publicly about the issue to reassure

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By Pete Hoekstra’s 2006 Logic, He Might Be Trying to Help al-Qaeda

Check out Rachel Maddow going hard on Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) for publicly revealing that the U.S. intelligence community is intercepting the communications of al-Qaeda-sympathetic cleric Anwar Aulaqi, a former U.S. preacher now in Yemen whom Fort Hood murder suspect Nidal Malik Hasan apparently contacted before the shooting.

Some Answers About the Intelligence Community and Fort Hood Shooter

Following up on ABC’s report that U.S. intelligence knew Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Malik Hasan tried to contact al-Qaeda facilitators online, The New York Times reports the aftermath:

[T]he federal authorities dropped an inquiry into the matter after deciding that the messages from the psychiatrist, Maj.

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