Obama officials refuse to say if assassination power extends to US soil | Glenn Greenwald

The administration's extreme secrecy is beginning to lead Senators to impede John Brennan's nomination to lead the CIA

The Justice Department "white paper" purporting to authorize Obama's power to extrajudicially execute US citizens was leaked three weeks ago. Since then, the administration - including the president himself and his nominee to lead the CIA, John Brennan - has been repeatedly asked whether this authority extends to US soil, i.e., whether the president has the right to execute US...