Fire When Ready  Obama's targeted drone strikes -- even on
Americans -- aren't illegal. In fact, there's a solid legal
foundation and a number of checks and balances upholding his
right to take out terrorists.  Instead of convincing critics,
Attorney General Holder's defense of the Obama administration's
targeted killing policy earlier this month seems to have
emboldened them. "The idea that the executive branch can be
judge, jury, and executioner … totally undoes the system of
checks and balances," charged American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) Executive Director Anthony Romero after Holder's talk at
Northwestern University's law school. Romero and others have
been especially scathing about the lawlessness of last fall's
drone killing in Yemen of U.S. citizen and al Qaeda affiliate
leader Anwar al-Awlaki.  In this new age of drone warfare,
probing the constitutional legitimacy of targeted killings has
never been more vital. The Obama administration has carried
out well over 200 drone strikes in its first thre