It sounds like an Orwellian idea from a futuristic sci-fi movie.
Government officials gather in a secret courtroom, poring over documents
and weighing whether to approve the fly-by killing of a suspected
terrorist.
If the judges say yes, the target dies. If not, the target lives.
But U.S. senators are now floating the idea of an assassination court
as a way to rein in the ever-expanding drone program — a secretive
operation that, as it is, sounds like thriller fiction, but isn’t.
The idea was bandied about during Thursday’s confirmation hearing for
CIA director nominee John Brennan, who fueled the talk by saying he
thinks the concept is “worthy of discussion.” The nominee, as a vocal
supporter of the targeted-killing program, has come under scrutiny for
what some lawmakers see as the administration’s unchecked power to kill,
even if the target is an American citizen.
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