U.S. Decision to Approve Killing of Cleric Causes Unease

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/world/14awlaki.html?hp

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From: barry levine
Date: Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:28 AM
Subject: re: U.S. Decision to Approve Killing of Cleric Causes Unease
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
   With all due respect, Scott Shane's article on extra-judicial
killings is namby-pamby. The story here is not that the executive
order  "makes some legal authorities deeply uneasy". The story is that
the executive order for an extra-judicial slaying of U.S. citizens
without charge or trial is illegal.  Next week we will mark the
thirty-third anniversary of Richard Nixon's bizarre assertion "When
the President does it, that means it is not illegal".  He was wrong
then, and this newspaper shouldn't pretend that he was right now.
Barry Levine