Come Clean on Drones
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Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The rule of law is the moralunderpinning of U.S. foreign policy. President Barack Obama mustnow reaffirm that principle.
This task became all the more urgent with the disclosurelast week of a secret document that provides the JusticeDepartment’s legal analysis of the targeted killings ofsuspected terrorists. After NBC News obtained the memo, membersof Congress complained that they had been kept in the dark, andthe president agreed to share his reasoning.