https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/11/doj-kill-list-memo-forces-many-dems-out-of-the-closet-as-overtly-unprincipled-hacks/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 08:35:34 -0400<![CDATA[What this DOJ &#8220;white paper&#8221; did was to force people to confront Obama&#8217;s assassination program without emotionally manipulative appeal to some cartoon Bad Guy Terrorist (Awlaki). That document never once mentioned Awlaki. Instead &#8211; using the same creepily clinical, sanitized, legalistic language used by the Bush DOJ to justify torture, renditions and warrantless eavesdropping &#8211; it set forth the theoretical framework for empowering not just Obama, but any and all presidents, to assassinate not just Anwar Awlaki, but any citizens declared in secret by the president to be worthy of execution. Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee wrote that the DOJ memo &#8220;should shake the American people to the core&#8221;, while Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman explained &#8220;the revolutionary and shocking transformation of the meaning of due process&#8221; ushered in by this memo and said it constituted a repudiation of the Magna Carta.]]>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:00:25 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/11/doj-kill-list-memo-forces-many-dems-out-of-the-closet-as-overtly-unprincipled-hacks-n100046