From Reuters: "The Obama administration will on Monday try to persuade a U.S. judge to throw out a lawsuit challenging its program to capture or kill U.S. citizens who have joined militant groups like al Qaeda, including Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki."--Read the rest

I am not an extremist kitteh. I believe that in some rare instances it may be necessary to do ugly things for the common good, and that that's one of the reasons we have governments. But I believe in calling it what it is. If we have to kill someone away from the battlefield, whether an American or not, we have to do it. However, we shouldn't be doing it in secret. If we have to keep the names secret, we could certainly publish the numbers: "The CIA today received kill orders on 14 suspected terrorists who have not been tried or convicted of anything." What do you think?