Secret panel can put Americans on ‘kill list’ without any oversight

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Reuters
October 6, 2011

American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.

There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House’s National Security Council, several current and former officials said. Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate.

The panel was behind the decision to add Awlaki, a U.S.-born militant preacher with alleged al Qaeda connections, to the target list. He was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen late last month.

The role of the president in ordering or ratifying a decision to target a citizen is fuzzy. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to discuss anything about the process.

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47 Responses to “Secret panel can put Americans on ‘kill list’ without any oversight”

  1. East is West, my dear Winston…be sure to discard all paper records of this…

    Matzo Man Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 8:07 am

    “There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House’s National Security Council, several current and former officials said.”

    Trust THEM? The public does not need to know, even though it is public business? This is criminal!

    This is like the Mafia! So what do we have? CIA hit squads now?
    Hey isn’t this White House supposed to be TRANSPARENT? WHAT A JOKE(R)

    Quantummonkeybutt Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 9:19 am

    “…CIA hit squads now?…”

    NOW??? NOW???

    A CIA/FBI DEATH SQUAD KILLED JOHN KENNEDY, JR. BY SHOOTING HIM IN THE HEAD IN…DALLAS TEXAS!

    (wx3dot) wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Federal_Reserve_Bank_of_Dallas_1.jpg

    QMB
    i’ve been
    everywhere

    Matzo Man Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    Yes CIA hit squads. I saw the people in the Kennedy shooting film ducking from bullets being fired over their heads. Then I saw them running in the direction of the shooters to try to see them or get them. Oswald didn’t fire those shots.

    Oswald was a patsy.

    E. Howard Hunt said too much. Look at our “President” — CIA — he is their creation!

    Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 8:08 am

    THIS IS THE STUFF OF EVEIL EMPIRES REGAN SPOKE ABOUT 20 YRS AGO.

    THE CRAP WE SAW IN FILMS 30 YRS AGO ABOUT TRYANICAL COMMUNIST GOVERNMENTS.

    WHEN SHTF WE ARE JUSTIFIED !

    AN EYE FOR AN EYE.

    NO MERCY JUST COLD HARD JUSTICE AT THE END OF A ROPE, OR WORSE.

    Ohio Militia Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 11:06 am

    Calling all patriots in OHIO meet at the Fed in Cleveland Fed Fri Sat And Sun. Come on lets get this moving.

    Tom Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    Regan? Do you mean President REAGAN? He was part of the problem!!! His treaon(s) are among the worst of any President!! He supposedly “closed” 660 military bases across the country, only they weren’t closed. They were “renovated”: guillotines were installed and German soldiers man them and they kill American patriots in them every day. Fuck Reagan, he’s a traitor to this country.

    reconscoutsniper Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 8:56 am

    defiantayraab says:
    October 6, 2011 at 7:19 am
    East is West, my dear Winston…be sure to discard all paper records of this…
    =======================================

    OOOOOOOOOOOOOK! damagedgoods has spoken!

    Bravo2………out

  2. The truth? Obama is a murderer. He made the decision to murder an American citizen without trial. There are no excuses!

    TIME FOR IMPEACHMENT FOR CAPITAL MURDER.

    As for this hit list or death panel, are you surprised?

    ConcernedSenior Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 10:24 am

    I have a better idea. Put Obama, Bernanke, Geithner, Big Sis, and the rest of Obimbo’s cabinet on the “list”.

    Matzo Man Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    You know this violates the golden rule. So if they are living by some other rule made by some other “god” then, anything goes.!!!

  3. Funny how when people are confronted with MORTAL FEAR they back down. Is this why articles like this get few and ‘guarded’ responses?

    reconscoutsniper Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 8:54 am

    Here is a “guarded response.

    Secret panel can put Americans on ‘kill list’ without any oversight
    ============================================

    First, this is not a “new” thing. It been happening here for many years. The difference is that just now, the public is becoming aware of it through the efforts of guys like AJ and the reporter who broke the story on Fast Furious. There have been many more who have come out with the truth that TPTB do not want released to the public.

    Many are in hiding and have been for years knowing what fate awaited them if they did come back into the public view.

    A doctor, a woman doctor, has been in hiding since she released the report on “Culling” that she got from Madeline Albright. IE Straight from the horses mouth.

    Albright told her during an exam that TPTB were going to have to “cull” the world population.

    When the “good” doctor reported this, she discovered that she and her “practice” were about to be……uh….”terminated”.

    radioliberty.com/pca.htm

    In a fake response, Albright tried to appear as being against culling. Read what happened in spite of her bullshit. She only objected to the word “genocide” being used. She furthered the agenda of the NWO.

    theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/populationcontrolagenda2.htm

    From the article; ” Madeline Albright also insisted that the word “genocide” must not be used, and that the United Nations forces stationed in Rwanda were not to be allowed to intervene. In the three months that followed, between one-half and three-quarters of a million Christians were systematically dismembered, hacked to death, and slaughtered in the bloody carnage that ensued. Tens of thousands of Christians were murdered in their churches; tens of thousands more were murdered in their hospitals and in their schools.

    On several occasions, United Nations soldiers stationed in Rwanda actually handed over helpless Christians under their protection to members of the Hutu militia. They then stood by as their screaming charges were unceremoniously hacked to pieces. At the end of the carnage, in late July 1994, the American government rewarded the Hutu murderers with millions of dollars in foreign aid. Strangely, the American press has remained silent Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA
    ==========================================================

    Many of those who were murdered, were US Citizens..”Christian citizens” who were there to help the people of that nation.

    Scroll close to the bottom to read all about it.

    Does it matter who makes the “hit”? Maybe.

    It does matter just who gave the order? Yes.

    Who was Albrights boss? B. Clinton.

    How many members of Clinton security were murdered by Clinton because they knew too much?

    zpub.com/un/un-bc-body.html

    If you search “snopes” , they will tell you its a lie. Who is snopes?

    tarstarkas.net/blog/2010/01/04/snopes-com-is-run-by-communist-liberals/

    Thats who.

    We are all of us on that “hit list”. We are US citizen Patriots. J. Napolitano said we were all terrorists.

    That places every one of us on that HIT list. Be advised.

    Bravo2……out

    Peace Frog Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 10:25 am

    how many innocent Americans on on said list ya suppose ?

    you know….fake “domestic terrorist” AKA…undesireables

    ConcernedSenior Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 10:25 am

    Also, my good friend, don’t forget the 3,000 Americans killed on 9/11. They were, in a way, on the list, although the specific names were not known.

    Peace Frog Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 10:49 am

    sacraficed to advance the NWO…pronto…according to PNAC

    “we need a new Pearl Harbor”….isn’t that what it said ?

    ragnar danneskjold Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 10:47 am

    The Clinton’s have a trail of bodies leading all the way back to Arkansas. Besides the number of bodyguards/investigators/ex-fundraisers/witnesses who died under “unique” circumstances, Slick Willie’s women had a bad habit of coming down with Arkansas Sudden Death Syndrome.

    Hey, you know Willie; he was just out there trying to do the progressive thing and “spread the wealth” ya know? Any of his interns/ex-girlfriends who threaten to go public, are suddenly found with a bullet in the back of the head, and they rule it a suicide.

    Here is a fun fact: If you look at pictures of his ex-interns, they all look the same (dark hair, big mouths, kinda homely) then you look at a picture of his mother, she looks the same! Mother issues anyone?

    reconscoutsniper Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 11:20 am

    For Clinton, it would be: “Yo momma”. LOL!!

    While you are here, do you need a state listing of “said” camps? Let us know.

    Bravo2……out

    Lanny Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 12:17 pm

    Noted and ‘advised’.

  4. Well since OUR government offices have been occupied by Incorporated and a rogue reserve there are no civil liberties, It seems that what they’ve done to our civil liberties is within itself CRIMINAL! each and everyday that OUR government offices continue to be run by corporations and THIEVING, FRAUDING, bankster CRIMINALS, they will do whatever they want as criminals do when they have the gun!
    They say it is because of 9-11? For OUR protection? So we the people that pay taxes for life to be “protected” by all of these agencies, are in fact being further ENSLAVED, robbed and pilfered with OUR own money. America… we have taxation without representation! They have us ALL weakened, broke, homeless, jobless ( except for military) They have plenty of money for SECURITY and weapons, and development in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somali, just to name a few. 800 + military bases around the globe, and their salaries(occupiers of OUR offices and buildings), benefits, security, pensions, but NO money for AMERICA!

  5. Here we go!! I knew this was going to happen. Whenever, there is such an ambiguous term as “terrorist”, the list of “terrorists” keep growing until it includes everyone disagreeing with the policy of the government. The actions against such “terrorists” also tend to trickle-down to lower levels of government. In this case, the authority to assassinate citizens is now potentially in the hands of any State Department bureaucracy. FDA? BATF? FBI? EPA? One thing is for sure, government bureaucracies only grow in size and power.

    American citizens should not EVER be targeted for assassination, period. Think of where this dangerous mindset leads. Who can define in strict terms what a terrorist is? The ambiguity is overwhelming. First, the government starts demonizing their target publicly without any evidence whatsoever, then they assassinate the citizen by any means possible including WMDs. Already American citizens are being branded as “terrorists”, including Ron Paul supporters. You might say this is merely rhetoric, but I beg to differ. The intent is there to get rid of people who don’t uphold the official line of the administration and Wall Street. Liberty dollar founder, Bernard von NotHaus, was convicted of domestic terrorism for LEGALLY minting and selling silver bullion. The government managed to get a conviction because the coins bore a similar look to government coins. Everyone who has bought Liberty dollars knows they are bullion, not government currency. Well, the heck why bother even bringing Bernard von NotHaus to court if he is as the Justice Department charges, a “domestic terrorist”. According to their new rules, the government can just assassinate him instead. Herbalist Greg Caton, owner of Alpha Omega Labs, is another example of a “terrorist”. He was kidnapped and “renditioned” back to the United States for selling anti-cancer herbal medicine in Equador. Amazingly, Caton was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list alongside murderers and drug cartel kingpins. What was his crime? Selling anti-cancer herbal medicine and telling the truth about those medicines on his website. Selling anti-cancer herbs is no crime in Ecuador. So, where is the line drawn on who is a terrorist and who isn’t one? Anwar al-Awlaki? Bernard von NotHaus? Who makes the decision? The president? The VP? FBI? State Police? Local police? Do you see the slippery slope here? Ron Paul is absolutely correct in raising this issue. Tyranny has a proclivity to spread like cancer. Once it is rooted, political correctness becomes the societal public policy. Beware!! We need to control such ambiguities as “terrorist” and other ambiguous terms by simply following the Western model of law, which states the accused is innocent until proven guilty. Due process is a Constitutional protection for American citizens against a tyrannical government. Our founding fathers knew all too well about the zealot British government lawyers and their star chambers. Did you know the FBI boasts a 97 percent conviction rate? This should set off alarm bells to any thinking individual. No agency [anywhere] can be that good unless their power and influence has surpassed the checks and balances of justice. In stating this, this infers the FBI have exceeded the point where they can fabricate and plant evidence even when it is obvious to the judge. Their power and influence has become that pervasive.

    Peace Frog Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 1:12 pm

    I can see the kill list trickling-down to the local LEO…easy

    it aint called police state for nothing

  6. it all goes back to racism. white ppl make me laugh when you try to act like victims. please. if you dont like being treated unfairly, dont hang out with the darkskins. period. and dont think youre fooling anyone by acting like you care because if you did, shit wouldve changed along time ago. wake me up when we finally make it out of the slave owner mentality era.

    Eduard Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 8:39 am

    Hah? Are you from another universe? Your comment about “racism” is about as relevant to this topic as farting for cleaner air.

    Tom Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 2:27 pm

    It isn’t racism. The NWO will kill anyone they think stands in the way. At the top of the list are ex-combat arms M.O.S.’s along with anyone with known martial arts experience. Are you black belt in something? Then you’re on the list. Next comes known shit-kickers and anyone who can give the cops a run for their money. After that comes political and financial protesters. Race has nothing to do with it. You are obviously self-conscious…

  7. transparency at work- we kill American citizens without a trial but the President has no comment on the process!

    Mr. Constitutional Law Professor at work…we’re out raising awareness in our community about Ron Paul being pro-CIVIL LIBERTIES- are you?

    The time is running out to restore our country.

    Ohio Militia Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 11:09 am

    Calling all patriots in OHIO meet at the Fed in Cleveland Fri Sat And Sun. Come on lets get this moving.

    Tractor Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 11:32 am

    Ohio, I owe you an explanation after we win… Nothing was really aimed at you.

    Tractor Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 11:39 am

    I’ll be at the Beantown branch, if all alone.

  8. State sanctioned murder. They do it in this country and they do it outside the country. If we had a real media – assassination is alive in the USA. Happens everyday.

  9. Imagine that nut in the white house deciding on whether you should live or die. The man (Obama), like Bush have no known moral principles. They stooge for the higher powers, like the Cass Sunstiens, Joe Liebermans and the Schumers in Washington. Any one of those types that surround Obama’s daily life would have the will and the power to have you executed. After all, These people are Troskyites, Neoconed Trotskyites and they’re proud of it. They swagger their power in and around the president’s ever move. These are of the same mentality that worked feverishly in the killing fields under Russia’s Stalin. They are now bringing that murderous belief system to America. “Globalism” is just a catch phrase for Trotskyism, nothing more.

  10. There have been a lot of people who have died under very suspicious circumstances.

    How many were killed by the government secretly? We will never know of course.

    There really isn’t much left of the rule of law and our constitutions, obviously.

    No one should trust government with this power. Ever.

    Killing a particular person on purpose is far different than killing enemy soldiers on the battlefield.

    Matzo Man Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    The D.C. Madam and one of her girls that’s for sure. Our criminal government is so fake. I will never forget them or the MANY others, like what is on the Clinton body trail, and the Obama body trail (ARE YOU GETTING THIS OBAMATRONS — HE HAS A BODY TRAIL), or the planes blown out of the air.

    All I can say is, what goes around comes around. Maybe not in this lifetime, but in the end they will get their reward. Oh they may prosper now but those skeletons will haunt them forever.

  11. Is this list just for Americans or does it include illegal aliens born in Kenya???

    TRANSLATION: PRELUDE TO A HOLLACAUST

  12. you will come to know when the bullet hits the bone—–drone strikes to be the norm in the us of a —-well cudos to the NYPD who told dispatch they had flat tires and they were not paid enough to respond to the liberty round up op run by DHS -for any on the ground get a radio app and a commo team together and record the traffic and expose the criminals in action calling the shots

  13. What all this means….and it has been around for quite some time, the American People soon will have to pack weapons as they demonstrate and this means very soon. All law enforcement who says they are just following orders will also be guilty for protecting those criminals elements. Tough luck to them. If law enforcement were smart they would immediately cross the lines to our side. We also need to get the Military on our side. Very soon all Americans will have to attacked the Wall Street Criminals physically because if we truely believe in the Constitution and our rights we will definitely sacrifice our lives against the evil we see. Unfortunately those criminals do not know the difference between right and wrong therefore we must make them pay! Its either them or us! Whats it gonna be?

  14. So “Checks and Balances” is just more school brainwashing.

    You are on your own in this country.

    You can trust neither the police nor the government.

    ConcernedSenior Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 10:28 am

    Don’t forget the biggest criminals, the corrupt judges of the corrupt courts, all 99.9% of them. Somewhere, there might be one or two honest judges somewhere, but they probably are sitting in traffic courts, because they actually dispensed real justice on a higher court.

  15. Well, let’s see, first is Abraham Lincoln, then Robert Olsen, then James Forestall, then untold others, and then JFK, then Oswald, Ruby, and untold others, then MLK, and RFK, then Malcolm X, then a conspiracy with 4 astronauts on one of the blown-up Apollo missions, then there’s a quiet spell, and then Flight 103 over Lockerbie, another flight TWA 800 in New Jersey, then JFK Jr. and his wife and her sister. Carolyn Kennedy decided to disappear before they could kill her. Does anybody see how the Nazi’s are working ?

  16. RECONSHITFORBRAINS,

    You have understood what I wrote, if you had ever went to school. You are a fraud. You were never a Marine. You are just a ZIONIST piece of dog shit. Go snap your radish in a public toilet. You might run into one of your Judeo-puke buddies.

    reconscoutsniper Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    Why post your horse shit down here like the coward you are? Put it up there for all to see. Stop running away.

    Be the proud damaged ass you’ve always been.

    Bravo2……out

    Tom Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 4:31 pm

    And you are the infidel, Muslim.

  17. Tommy Vietor just made Billboards Top 100 Heatseekers. Go figure… Well deserved though.
    Representative Dutch Ruppersberger will be there too if he does not call for an immediate impeachment hearing.

    “… they look at the situation, you have input from the military, and also, we make sure that we follow international law,” I guess the US Constitution isn’t important in the decision.

    Sic semper tyrannis

    furthermore Metallica’s first LP.

    Nuff said.

  18. We need to find out who is on the secret panel and put the on the patriot kill list.

  19. How long before that list grows to include the alternative media and its followers and from there to those who simply dont believe in corporate fascism and from there to those who simply don’t meet their recycling quota. It’s the thin edge of the wedge and un-american.

  20. More of their errands are pure cowardice, like the microwave auditory assault transmitted on legacy dwelling wires 24-7. Kill’em back. It’s even more of a dirty secret and has nothing necessarily to do with Owl Wacky whatever stock camel ad icon–I do not care. It’s being done for political revenge and self serving diseased egomaniacal power tripping.

    ..and sue the $#!+ out of’em. Century Link has really gone ape$#!+ with their multichannel super highspeed transmitters. Consider them armed, dangerous and insane. Get protective orders to sever physical connection at their end while you sue them blue.

    It’s like terahertz carrier, and who knows, maybe 1000 or more watts. Start at one end of the USCA and don’t stop till you get to the other.

    Tom Reply:
    October 6th, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    I’d love to learn more about that. Sounds like we are under attack aurally?

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