{"id":714321,"date":"2010-04-12T11:53:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81922"},"modified":"2010-04-12T11:53:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:53:09","slug":"did-harold-koh-just-defend-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/714321","title":{"rendered":"Did Harold Koh Just Defend Assassination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Serwer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/tapped_archive?month=04&amp;year=2010&amp;base_name=did_koh_also_provide_the_legal\">reads<\/a> through <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/80622\/that-harold-koh-such-a-transnationalist-that-he-defends-the-legality-of-drone-strikes\">the State Department legal adviser&#8217;s recent defense of why drone strikes outside Afghanistan are legal<\/a> and observes that the rationale Harold Koh offered could be used to argue that assassinations of people like <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/81550\/why-is-it-legal-to-kill-anwar-al-awlaki\">Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S. citizen-turned-extremist who has argued that Muslims have an obligation to attack America<\/a>, are legal.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Eric Holder will testify on Wednesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee, a long-delayed and much-anticipated round of testimony on all matters facing the Justice Department. It&#8217;s likely to become a showdown on Holder&#8217;s positions on Justice and counterterrorism. Whether Holder will address assassinations in an open session is, of course, unclear-to-doubtful. Last week I filed Freedom of Information Act requests for the actual rationale adopted by the Obama administration to compel Holder and his colleagues to explain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Serwer reads through the State Department legal adviser&#8217;s recent defense of why drone strikes outside Afghanistan are legal and observes that the rationale Harold Koh offered could be used to argue that assassinations of people like Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S. citizen-turned-extremist who has argued that Muslims have an obligation to attack America, are legal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZPj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}