DNI Dennis Craig, Who Told Congress US Gov Can Kill Suspected Americans Without Due Process, Resigns

DNI Dennis Craig, Who Told Congress US Gov Can Kill Suspected Americans Without Due Process, Resigns

We have this case of Aafia Siddiqui who is an American citizen, who was kidnapped and held in the Bagram military base in Afghanistan for five years – secretly, tortured, denied all of her constitutional rights. The whole thing was totally outside all known American law. And now we’ve had Dennis Blair, the head of national intelligence announce that the United States Government has a list of Americans that it will assassinate abroad. So the government has announced it’s going to kill its own citizens, without arrest, without trial, without conviction of a capital crime. They’re just going to shoot them down somewhere. Well these two things together are the definition of a police state.

We have a number of constitutional scholars in our most distinguished law schools who have said that these proposals are not only totally illegal under American law but constitute war crimes under Geneva Conventions. How else would you define a police state?

There’s no difference so far between his administration and Bush/Cheney regime. And so what we see is that there has been a coup, a power grab. The law means nothing to the government. It operates totally outside the law with contempt for the law.

And what’s most amazing is that, and this is not my opinion. He went to the United States Congress and told one of the most important committees, the Committee on intelligence, that the United States government now has a list of Americans that it will now murder. How does this differ from Joseph Stalin?

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