I write this very shortly before we know who our next president will be. But an explosive Oct. 23 investigative report by the Washington Post’s Greg Miller explains how President Barack Obama’s administration may sharply upend our laws and values for years ahead:
“Over the past two years, the Obama administration has been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, a next-generation targeting list called the ‘disposition matrix’ ” (“Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists,” Washington Post, Oct. 23).
Though it is a program of the Obama administration, former Gov. Mitt Romney, as I shall demonstrate, already agrees with a vital part of its essence.
A number of substantial news analysts, led by Glenn Greenwald, are following up on Miller’s revelation. For example, Greenwald points out that Miller, after interviewing “ ‘current and former officials from the White House and the Pentagon, as well as intelligence and counterterrorism agencies,’” comes to the significant conclusion that, as “ ‘the United States’ conventional wars are winding down,’ the Obama administration ‘expects to continue adding names to kill or capture lists for years’ ” (“Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent,” guardian.co.uk, Oct. 24).
But Greenwald digs deeper: “The ‘capture’ part of that list is little more than symbolic, as the U.S. focus is overwhelmingly on the ‘kill’ part.”
Keep in mind the ever-increasing use of CIA pilotless drone killings of suspected terrorists and their families who come to bury them.
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