Barack Obama authorized killing US citizens abroad via drone without trial

Evidence

Drone strikes became the Obama administration’s signature mode of warfare. In May 2012 the New York Times revealed that every Tuesday (“Terror Tuesdays”), Obama met with advisors to determine the list of people to be assassinated using drone strikes (the “kill list”). This list sometimes included US citizens like the Yemeni-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. In the same drone strike that killed al-Awlaki, his sixteen-year-old son Abdulrahman was also executed without as much as a trial or the presentation of evidence in a court of law. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 508

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the legal rationales and internal administration debates around targeting US citizens on the kill list, and the citizenship-attenuation logic involved.
• SHARE: A precisely-counterintuitive fact for someone studying the politics of empire or civil liberties: the ‘Terror Tuesdays’ kill-list ritual under a Nobel Peace Prize president.
• XREF: connects to: Drone strikes killed US citizens without due process or trial — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 421; US drone strikes executed a US citizen and his sixteen-year-old son without trial — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 508; Targeted drone killings operate without a clear legal framework (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Drone strikes killed US citizens without due process or trial #corroborates (0.95) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 421
• US drone strikes executed a US citizen and his sixteen-year-old son without trial #exemplifies (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 508
• The United States killed an American citizen and his son by drone in Yemen #exemplifies (0.95) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 467
• Targeted drone killings operate without a clear legal framework #expands (0.80)
• American citizenship offers no protection from targeted drone assassination #expands (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 848
• The US government killed citizens without trial and authorized indefinite detention for terror support. #corroborates (0.80)
• Obama’s oratory concealed continued drone strikes and mosque surveillance #expands (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 299
• Historical continuity of remote killing does not justify drones #responds-to (0.75) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 337
• Obama’s defense guidance continued the War on Terror via drones and special forces #expands (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 433
• The drone made warfare absolutely unilateral, killing without risk of being killed #expands (0.72)
• Unilateral drone killing makes the legal right to kill merely formal. #expands (0.72) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 525
• Obama’s rebranded war on terror kept drone and special-forces targeting against Muslims #expands (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 507
• The US deliberately maintains legal ambiguity about drone strikes even in court #expands (0.72) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 536
• Obama’s drone campaign killed civilians in five Muslim-majority countries #expands (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 300