Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans

[derspiess]

So am I reading this correctly--  Hans is arguing in favor of an Obama policy & Minsky against it?

[Zanza]

So am I reading this correctly--  Hans is arguing in favor of an Obama policy & Minsky against it?

Seems consistent with their usual positions. It's probably the policy that is unusual.

[derspiess]

So am I reading this correctly--  Hans is arguing in favor of an Obama policy & Minsky against it?

Seems consistent with their usual positions. It's probably the policy that is unusual.

Don't ruin the moment.  Yeah, we know why solar eclipses happen but it doesn't mean we should ignore them.

[Ideologue]

HANS SUPPORTS OBAMA.

As I've said in the past I'm an ideologue, not a partisan hack, unlike most of the posters here.

I'm a partisan hack.

[The Minsky Moment]

So am I reading this correctly--  Hans is arguing in favor of an Obama policy & Minsky against it?

There are strong continuities between the post-Rumsfeld Bush administration security policy and the Obama policy.  I am not really arguing against either per se, in part because I don't really know exactly what the policy is - i.e. what criteria is being used to select targets and what safeguards are in place.  It does make me uneasy.