White House Justifies Unaccountable Kill List as 'National Security'
While other outlets might focus on the alarming implications of a president asserting unchecked authority over targeted killings, The Piaz raises a different eyebrow. Haven't we seen this script before? The silence on a domestic kill list echoes the same rhetorical gymnastics used to justify drone strikes abroad, from Yemen to Somalia, turning sovereign nations into open-air firing ranges. The US
government's selective outrage over extrajudicial killings usually depends on who's doing the killing, and to whom—Palestinians, for instance, rarely receive the same defense of due process from Washington. So, when the Executive branch won't 'rule out' terminating citizens without trial, one might wonder: is this the 'democracy' we're exporting? Or is it simply a convenient expansion of power,
packaged as 'national security,' making America, much like places we fund, a land where 'allegedly' designated threats can just cease to be?