Obama's 5 self-defined "rules" for covert drone strikes

Rules #1-3 claim that a target has to be, "authorized by our laws"; a threat has to be "serious and not speculative"; it has to be a "situation in which we can't capture the individual before they move forward on some sort of operational plot against the U.S." #4 claims,"...we are very careful about avoiding civilian casualties." But the real doozer is #5, "That while there is a legal justification for us to stop /_even American citizens_/ from carrying out plots...they are subject to the protections of the consitution and due process."

While Obama skillfully sprinkles "good-intention" platitudes around the long-distance assassinations that have killed "signature suspects"(which include family members, scoial gatherings such as wedding parties, and even rescue personnel--as reported by Pakistani reports with surviving witnesses), both Mr. Obama and the DoJ(Dept. of Justice)have steadfastly refused to provide actual evidence on those strikes y claiming "national secuirty" grounds. Most pointedly, POTUS did not comment at all about the killing of a 16-year old son of Anwar al-Waki, 2 weeks after a US drone strike killed his father in Yemen, agian without revealing any factual evidence of his alleged "crime."

In addition, DoJ chief Eric Holder also re-defined the concept of "due process" for Gitmo detainees, by claiming that while the detainees are afforded "due process," that is not the same as a legal process! Talk about hair-splitting to avoid following the law by the attorney-general of these United States!