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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 11:58 AM
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Exclusive: Can the President Order a Killing on U.S. Soil?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11180519/site/newsweek

Feb. 13, 2006 issue - In the latest twist in the debate over presidential powers, a Justice Department official suggested that in certain circumstances, the president might have the power to order the killing of terrorist suspects inside the United States. Steven Bradbury, acting head of the department's Office of Legal Counsel, went to a closed-door Senate intelligence committee meeting last week to defend President George W. Bush's surveillance program.


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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 12:05 PM
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1. Dupe, see link inside!
Thanks for posting this, though!

Original thread is right here!

PB
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 03:17 PM
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11. that's in LBN. This is GD. n/t
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Fovea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 12:05 PM
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2. Of course he can
Will it be carried out?
It already has been...
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 12:07 PM
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3. If you twist up unlikely hypotheticals you can prejudice rhetoric
that people will agree with.

The essential thing not to lose track of is that you are talking about unlikely hypotheticals.

"If you know a guy is going to nuke Chicago is it ok to kill him?" Well, to save 8-10 million people what the hell do you think people will say?

But, this is a very unlikely scenario. Terrorists don't have nuclear weapons. And even if they did, the likelihood that we might knowing who "he" is and that "he" is going to use one on Chicago is very very, vanishing low.
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MadisonProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 12:13 PM
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4. The Branch Davidians comes to mind.
Edited on Sun Feb-05-06 12:13 PM by MadisonProgressive
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 12:19 PM
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6. What are you talking about?
That Clinton personally ordered the hit on Koresh and his followers?
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MadisonProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 11:38 PM
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14. No, but he could have. You never know...
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 12:16 PM
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5. What's stopping him?
If he did decide to do it, who could stop him? He already broken the law, said he's do it again and practically DARED his critics to stop him.

If the president can ignore very specific laws like FISA, the Anti-Torture law, the Geneva Convention, etc., etc, then why not ordering a killing?

The only thing that gives him pause is if the action would cause his poll numbers to go down.
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 12:30 PM
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7. What's next, a death squad? EOM
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 03:37 PM
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13. Well, the squad that would assassinate someone here would, by definition,
be a "death" squad.

I'm sure Rove'll call it a "freedom" squad or "patriot" squad or whatever.
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Slit Skirt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 12:34 PM
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8. well here we go...and who exactly defines a terrorist?
could it be all of us trying to get at the truth...threatening the security of the powers to be and their global/neonazi agenda?
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 12:50 PM
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9. People who have died under strange circumstances:
The lady that accused * of getting her pregnant and forcing her to have an abortion. The Enron executive who was going to testify against Lay and "killed himself" in his car in Texas. Another one "killed himself" in Colorado. Senator Wellstone.

They kill who they want.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 01:06 PM
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10. Haven't you heard? Bush* can do anything he wants.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 03:28 PM
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12. I suppose if the Mafia capos can, so can Bush because he's
one of them.
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Katherine Brengle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 11:40 PM
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15. I went freeping earlier out of pure boredom and they had this story up...
too. Only, of course they thought it was great to let the Pres kill US citizens whenever he wants.

BTW, I managed to post all of twice (nothin offensive or against the rules) before I my posting ability was "revoked."

It was fun while it lasted...
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