On the occasion of some heroic individual leaking the Department of Justice white paper on the legality of drone strikes, here are some good links. Read them and try to guess the chances of your getting assassinated by a flying death-robot in the next few months or years.
- First, NBC’s report on the paper that they got through devious, journalistic means.
- The document itself
- Jacob Sullum on the white paper’s five most frightening aspects
- Conor Friedersdorf’s summary
- White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on the leak: “These strikes are legal, they are ethical and they are wise”.
- About that, says Nick Gillespie.
- A handful of Senators wrote a letter to Obama asking him to actually specify the full legal reasons behind his claimed right to kill. Politicians…doing…something…good?
- The Atlantic Wire on what isn’t in the paper.
- More of this kind of political writing, Esquire, please and thank you.
- David Frum, pompous tool who is wrong about everything, sticks his oar in re Obama’s kill powers. And Andy Levy tweets a response.
- Matt Welch sounds alarmingly optimistic about the new Rand Paulish GOP.
- Yeah, more of this kind of thing, Jezebel. Lady power, not state power, yeah?
- It’s like Kidz Bop with a tear-jerking, political agenda!
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