Showing posts with label Drones. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 7, 2013

US Attorney General Says Carrying Out a Military Attack on US Soil Would Be Legal

In an official letter released yesterday, United States Attorney General Eric Holder said that he would consider it legal and constitutional in extreme circumstances to use the military in raids or attacks on US soil.

It's unclear if that would involve drone strikes, special forces raids, or ordinary infantry troops.Here is quotes from Eric Holder,  when asked about this:
The Obama administration, Holder said, rejected the use of military force where "well-established law enforcement authorities in this country provide the best means for incapacitating a terrorist threat." But in theory, it'd be legal for the president to order such an attack under certain circumstances, Holder said.
"The question you have posed is therefore entirely hypothetical, unlikely to occur, and one we hope no president will ever have to confront. It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States," Holder wrote.
This is just sickening.......