Top ten problems with America killing its own citizens

Source AlterNet

The director of U.S. national intelligence told the House Intelligence Committee the government has the right to kill Americans abroad. Here are 10 problems with this: 1. Acts that are crimes under national and international law don't cease to be crimes because you cross a border. 2. Acts that are crimes under national and international law don't cease to be crimes because you engage in them frequently. Assassinating non-Americans is just as illegal as assassinating Americans. The leap here is not to victims of a different citizenship but to the legalization of murder. 3. Killing people has nothing whatsoever to do with gathering so-called intelligence.