https://archive.md/Zq0sc
"President Donald Trump has shattered the limits of executive authority by
ordering the summary executions of individuals he deems members of designated
terrorist organizations. He has also tested the bounds of his presidential
powers by creating a secret list of domestic terrorist organizations,
established under
National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, or NSPM-7.
Are Americans that the federal government deems to be members of domestic
terrorist organizations subject to extrajudicial killings like those it claims
are members of designated terrorist organizations? The White House, Justice
Department, and Department of War have, for more than a month, failed to answer
this question.
Lawmakers and other government officials tell
The Intercept that the pregnant
silence by the Trump administration has become especially worrisome as the
death toll mounts from attacks on alleged members of “designated terrorist
organizations” in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, and as Trump himself
makes ever more unhinged threats to imprison or execute his political
adversaries.
In early September,
The Intercept revealed that elite Special Operators
killed the shipwrecked victims of a September 2 attack on a suspected drug
smuggling boat. They have since struck more than 20 other vessels. The
administration insists the attacks are permitted because the U.S. is engaged in
“non-international armed conflict” with “designated terrorist organizations” it
refuses to name. Experts and lawmakers say these killings are outright murders
— and that Trump could conceivably use similar lethal force inside the United
States.
“The Trump Administration is trying to justify blowing small boats out of the
water by arbitrarily calling them ‘designated terrorist organizations’ — a
label not grounded in U.S. statute nor international law, but in solely what
Trump says,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., told
The Intercept. “If Trump is
using this justification to use military force on any individuals he chooses —
without verified evidence or legal authorization — what’s stopping him from
designating anyone within our own borders in a similar fashion and conducting
lethal, militarized attacks against them? This illegal and dangerous misuse of
lethal force should worry all Americans, and it can’t be accepted as normal.”"
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