[ExI] Rand Paul Filibuster

[Dave Sill]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:08 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> A storm in a teacup. Yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder wrote a very
> short letter to Sen. Rand Paul and said, "Does the president have the
> authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in
> combat on American soil? The answer is no."


What does "engaged in combat" mean? Nobody is suggesting that the Prez can
or would dispatch drones to take out people he just really dislikes. But
some American Al Qaeda wanna-be sitting in the basement of his parent's
house who's in contact with real terrorists and making real plans to kill
people with a shoe bomb or underwear bomb or R/C plane bomb? Would that not
be considered "combat"?

-Dave
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