{"id":6119,"date":"2011-10-09T09:25:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T23:53:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T09:25:58","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6119","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes.com: &#8220;Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/09\/world\/middleeast\/secret-us-memo-made-legal-case-to-kill-a-citizen.html?_r=1\">Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen<\/a> by Charlie Savage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration\u2019s secret legal memorandum that opened the door to the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical Muslim cleric hiding in Yemen, found that it would be lawful only if it were not feasible to take him alive, according to people who have read the document. <\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the Bill of Rights: the Fourth Amendment\u2019s guarantee that a \u201cperson\u201d cannot be seized by the government unreasonably, and the Fifth Amendment\u2019s guarantee that the government may not deprive a person of life \u201cwithout due process of law.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The memo concluded that what was reasonable, and the process that was due, was different for Mr. Awlaki than for an ordinary criminal. It cited court cases allowing American citizens who had joined an enemy\u2019s forces to be detained or prosecuted in a military court just like noncitizen enemies. <\/p>\n<p>It also cited several other Supreme Court precedents, like a 2007 case involving a high-speed chase and a 1985 case involving the shooting of a fleeing suspect, finding that it was constitutional for the police to take actions that put a suspect in serious risk of death in order to curtail an imminent risk to innocent people. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6119\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}