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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 11:16 AM
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US Citizens Placed On Assassination List -OK'd By "Secret Committee" Prez Does NOT Have To Sign Off
US citizens are placed on a list to be assassinated. Here’s Hosenball’s fuller explanation.

*** …strikes specifically targeting Americans must first be approved by a secret committee made up of senior intel officials and members of the president’s cabinet (it’s not known which ones). The president himself does not have to sign off on kill orders.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/02/06/the-president-himself-does-not-have-to-sign-off-on-kill-orders/

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/02/05/can-intel-agencies-kill-americans.aspx
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conservdem Donating Member (880 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 11:24 AM
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1. I am surprised this is the first I have seen or heard of this if the
information about this executive order came out last week.
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 11:26 AM
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2. Star Chamber again.
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mrs_p Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 11:28 AM
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3. k/r
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 11:29 AM
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4. well , watch your back in DC this March if you are protesting the occupations
I guess if they want to label you a terrrrarist and shoot you somewhere else, they can pretty much do it here, too.

assholes.
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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 11:38 AM
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5. If Americans ever get fed up enough to take meaningful action
in protesting the government, you can bet your ass this little government function will be often used.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 11:44 AM
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6. Did Bush Jr. put Paul WELLSTONE on that list?
Reason I ask: Bush Sr. Called him a "Little chickenshit." Rove called him the conservatives biggest "enemy."

PS: Stalin had a saying: "No man. No problem."
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 11:48 AM
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8. It wouldn't be the first time.
Bush Gang doesn't like problems and inconvenient truths.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 11:28 PM
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14. It's gotten pretty obvious.
It's a matter of survival. Genes worthy of rule. Look around and we can see the Who's Who Sinister.

Whether from blackmail or graft, when treason goes unprosecuted, the vilest multiply and survive.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 11:46 AM
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7. They can get a way with shit like this because most people will just dismiss it as conspiracy theory
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 11:50 AM
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9. Is it fascism yet? n/t
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 11:51 AM
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10. Deniability
If you are going to set up a domestic assassination squad the last thing you want is one person signing the order, there is comfort in a conspiracy.
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asdjrocky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 11:51 AM
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11. Democrats = Republicans.
Republicans = Democrats.

When will people learn?
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Arctic Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 12:28 PM
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12. Now we can no longer say our military and leaders are different then the Taliban.
Edited on Sun Feb-07-10 12:31 PM by Arctic Dave
Does the military kill civilians, yes.
Does the military kill our own, yes.
Does the military knowingly blow up infrastructure, yes.
Does the military destroy farms, yes.
Does the military torture, yes.
Does the military collectively punish, yes.

Why should I give a rats butt about these assholes? Is it because a democrat president is in charge now?

Fuck em both.
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That Is Quite Enough Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 12:31 PM
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13. Reminds me of Hersh's story about Cheney's personal hit squad.
Would make for a good 'intrigue story' if it wasn't a reality.
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 03:19 PM
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15. !?!
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