DOJ kill list memo forces many Dems out of the closet as overtly unprincipled hacks | Glenn Greenwald

Last week's controversy over Obama's assassination program forced into light many ignored truths that were long obvious

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This past week has been a strangely clarifying political moment. It was caused by two related events: the leak of the Justice Department's "white paper" justifying Obama's claimed power to execute Americans without charges, followed by John Brennan's alarming confirmation hearing (as Charles Pierce wrote: "the man whom the administration has put up to head the...