Obama's legal argument for droning an American citizen without trial, explained - Vox "We finally know the legal argument the Obama administration used to justify killing American citizen and alleged al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki in a 2011 drone strike in Yemen. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals forced the administration to release the Justice Department memo making the argument and, on Monday, the memo went public."
Basically it's the 2001 AUMF but the document making this specific case is so redacted it's unconvincing. While most believe that Anwar al-Awlaki was a bad guy, the case is far more dubias for his 16 year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki who was killed by a US drone two weeks after Anwar.
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