Pardiss Kebriaei, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses the ACLU/CCR joint lawsuit against the Treasury Department for ignoring a request for permission to represent the father of accused terrorist (and U.S. citizen) Anwar al-Aulaqi, the dubious legal gatekeeping role assigned to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the dozens of people on Obama’s extrajudicial executive assassination hit-list, why the Obama DOJ Office of Legal Council probably has memos that would make David Addington blush, the lawyer-free zone for Specially Designated Global Terrorists and how the post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force is now used as a blanket justification for U.S. military or covert action anywhere on anyone.
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