Headline stolen from this article, because I don’t know how to improve on it. (HT: Sullivan) So far, drone strikes have been used to kill two US citzens (that we know of): Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and his sixteen year old son. The fact that Obama has claimed the power to kill US citizens without trial is scary. Among other things there’s nothing in the legal claims Obama is making to stop a future president from having political opponents killed. But killing people without knowing whether they’re really guilty is wrong no matter what nationality they are.

Glenn Greenwald has more.