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Targeted victims, of course, are a closely kept secret. They can be anyone anywhere in the world. They can be ordinary people, distinguished ones, or officials. Their crime is opposing US imperialism.
Smith said "the creation of the matrix and the institutionalization of kill/capture lists reflect a shift that is as psychological as it is strategic." He omitted explaining its lawlessness. He didn't say that no one can self-appoint themselves judge, jury, and executioner.
What's most important, media scoundrels suppress. Nonetheless, he covered a lot of important ground. It's up to readers to connect the dots. Few take the trouble to do it.
His article was five online pages long. Few seeing it go beyond page one. They'd have missed page four saying:
Kill list "names are submitted to a panel of National Security Council officials that is chaired by Brennan and includes the deputy directors of the CIA and the FBI, as well as top officials from the State Department, the Pentagon and the NCTC."Page five added:
"Obama approves the criteria for lists and signs off on drone strikes outside Pakistan, where decisions on when to fire are made by the director of the CIA."
By presidential diktat, he can order anyone killed anywhere, including US citizens.
"For an administration that is the first to embrace targeted killing on a wide scale, officials seem confident that they have devised an approach that is so bureaucratically, legally and morally sound that future administrations will follow suit."
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