[Peace-discuss] Obama & murder

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Illinoisans may recall the murder of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, 40 years ago, 
by the Chicago police under the direction of the FBI. Did it go further up the 
"chain of command"? --CGE]

	Top U.S. Spook: Sure We Kill Americans,
	Just As Soon as We Get an Official O.K.

There used to be a time when the CIA would go berserk at the merest suggestion 
that its executive actions included torture and assassination. This modesty has 
long gone but even so, it was astonishing to hear the director of National 
Intelligence, Dennis Blair, blithely tell a senate committee this week that 
“Being a U.S. citizen will not spare an American from getting assassinated by 
military or intelligence operatives overseas if the individual is working with 
terrorists and planning to attack fellow Americans.” Blair added helpfully that 
"If we think direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific 
permission to do that." Does that mean the President or one of his cabinet 
members issued an okay for the FBI to riddle Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdulla 
on October 28, 2009, with 21 bullets, some of them aimed at his testicles and at 
least one in his back. They say the Imam was handcuffed after this lethal fusillade.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn02052010.html



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