Armed Conflict

Cheeky Good Fun By Opponents of Targeted Killing

Benjamin Wittes
Thursday, May 31, 2012, 10:22 AM
Look what’s shown up on the White House website: A petition to “create a ‘Do Not Kill” list in which American citizens can sign up to avoid being put on the president’s ‘kill list’ and therefore avoid being executed without indictment, judge, jury, trial or due process of law.” It already has 1,664 signatures.

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Look what’s shown up on the White House website: A petition to “create a ‘Do Not Kill” list in which American citizens can sign up to avoid being put on the president’s ‘kill list’ and therefore avoid being executed without indictment, judge, jury, trial or due process of law.” It already has 1,664 signatures. That will teach the White House to set up what it terms “a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country.”

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Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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