PushBack Politics - Live Political Blog
Holder: US Can Kill an American on Home Soil
Eric Holder says President Obama would be in his rights to order the killing of a US citizen on American soil under rare circumstances, reports Mother Jones. But in a letter to Rand Paul answering Paul’s question on the matter, the attorney general stressed it would have to a rare case indeed, something on par with Pearl Harbor or 9/11:
“It is possible I suppose to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States.”
Holder wrote, in a letter to a Rand Paul:
As members of this administration have previously indicated, the US government has not carried out drone strikes in the United States and has no intention of doing so. As a policy matter moreover, we reject the use of military force where well-established law enforcement authorities in this country provide the best means for incapacitating a terrorist threat. We have a long history of using the criminal justice system to incapacitate individuals located in our country who pose a threat to the United States and its interests abroad. Hundreds of individuals have been arrested and convicted of terrorism-related offenses in our federal courts.
The question you have posed is therefore entirely hypothetical, unlikely to occur, and one we hope no president will ever have to confront. It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States. For example, the president could conceivably have no choice but to authorize the military to use such force if necessary to protect the homeland in the circumstances like a catastrophic attack like the ones suffered on December 7, 1941, and September 11, 2001.
Prostitute Recants Story about Sex with Sen. Menendez (D), Says she was ‘Paid to Lie’
Prostitute Recants Story about Sex with Sen. Menendez, Says she was ‘Paid to Lie’.
A woman who allegedly appeared in a video in which she claimed to have been paid for sex with Sen. Bob Menendez is now saying the video was a setup.
An alleged Dominican prostitute who claimed on a video that she was paid to have sex with U.S. Sen Robert Menendez now says that it never happened and she was paid and given a script to make the video.
According to documents distributed to the media Monday, the woman, Nexis de los Santos Santana, and a Dominican lawyer, Miguel Galván, entered sworn statements claiming they were duped as part of an elaborate plan hatched by a Dominican lawyer under the guise of a divorce case involving Menendez’s longtime friend and donor, Dr. Salomon Melgen.
“I never went to bed with Menendez. I don’t know them,” de los Santos, 23, said in the testimony. “They were going to pay me a lot.”
She was one of two women who appeared in videos, first published last fall by the conservative website The Daily Caller, claiming to have been paid to have sex with Menendez.
No comments:
Post a Comment