Ironies in American Justice and Political Cheerleading

"The current President has, of course, obtained his own DOJ permission slip to assassinate American citizens without due process. Since that permission slip is too secret for us to see, we do not know whether the authorized assassination power is confined to foreign soil or extends to the U.S., although once one embraces the Bush-Cheney-Yoo theory that the entire world is a 'battlefield,' there is no coherent way to limit those asserted powers to foreign soil."