Obama Team’s Al-Awlaki Memo Furthered Bush Legacy: Noah Feldman
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Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Killing terrorists with drones isgreat politics. To the question, “Is it legal?” a naturalanswer might well be, “Who cares?”
But the legal justifications in the war on terrorism domatter -- and not just to people who care about civil liberties.They end up structuring policy. As it turns out, targetedkilling, now the hallmark of the Barack Obama administration’swar on terrorism, has its roots in rejection of the legaljustifications once offered for waterboarding prisoners.