10.19.2011

Charming? I'm outta here.

Close Read: An American Teen-ager in Yemen : The New Yorker

Where does the Obama Administration see the limits of its right to kill an American citizen without a trial? (The last time I wrote about Awlaki, a reader commented that “Awlaki was a citizen in name only”; but that name is the name of the law, and is, when it comes down to it, all any of us have, unless we want to rely on how charming our government finds us.)

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