US Attorney General Eric Holder will attempt to establish lawful authority for the killing of US citizens. Holder will be speaking to a group at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago and is expected to address the killing of the US citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, last September in Yemen by a joint CIA-US Military drone strike.
Holder will attempt to justify US government assassinations of US citizens in citing a September 18, 2001 joint congressional resolution that authorizes the use of all necessary force in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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