Free Talk Live - Eric Holder

Holder to Americans: We Can Kill You Without Trial

southernpatriot — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 02:38:05 +0000

Attorney General Eric Holder recently gave a speech in which he said the U.S. military can execute American citizens without trial, because “’[d]ue process’ and ‘judicial process’ are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.” Holder added, “[t]he Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.”

ACLU: Extra-Judicial Killings Raise ‘Profound Legal Questions'

ZEUSLGN — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:26:59 +0000

“While [Attorney General Eric Holder's] speech is a gesture towards additional transparency, it is ultimately a defense of the government’s chillingly broad claimed authority to conduct targeted killings of civilians, including American citizens, far from any battlefield without judicial review or public scrutiny.”

AG Eric Holder Justifies Legality For Murdering American Citizens

ZEUSLGN — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:53:05 +0000

Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that the decision to kill a U.S. citizen living abroad who poses a terrorist threat "is among the gravest that government leaders can face," but justified lethal action as legal and sometimes necessary. "When such individuals take up arms, ... plotting attacks designed to kill their fellow Americans, there may be only one realistic and appropriate response."