Americans Aren’t Drone Targets. They’re Collateral Damage.
Science, technology, and life. March 11 2013 8:44 AM  How Drones
Kill Americans  They don’t target citizens in the United States.
They kill them overseas as collateral damage.  (Continued from
Page 1)  5. The memos hide more than they reveal. Critics
(including me) have accused the administration of asserting
dangerously broad authority to kill people it views as threats.
The Times suggests this is less about grabbing power than about
withholding information. According to the story, the original
long memo that justified targeting Awlaki was full of
intelligence specific to his case. The administration didn’t
want to release this intelligence, so it stripped out all the
facts in the memo and converted the framework into a Justice
Department “white paper” that was leaked to the press. This
means there were lots of contextual factors that, in the view of
Obama’s lawyers, justified killing Awlaki. Many of these factors
wouldn’t apply in other cases, such