So much government fail in one single Yahoo article,
Yahoo!
Quote:
WASHINGTON (AP) — An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say, and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to do so legally under its new stricter targeting policy issued last year.
The CIA drones watching him cannot strike because he's a U.S. citizen and the Justice Department must build a case against him, a task it hasn't completed. [so why is the administration wrestling at all, they don't even have a complete case]
Four U.S. officials said the American suspected terrorist is in a country that refuses U.S. military action on its soil[so drone strikes into a country who denies military action(and we are not at war with) is ok?] and that has proved unable to go after him. And President Barack Obama's new policy says American suspected terrorists overseas can only be killed by the military, not the CIA, creating a policy conundrum for the White House.[italicized comments are mine obviously]
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The article goes on, and I am sure this guy probably means harm to US citizens, but it's a bit outrageous, with all the different ways the government has to get a guilty verdict if it wants one, that they aren't going to at the very least put him on trial in absentia.