John Kiriakou
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Dave, Dave has three.
He says, two time loser.
Welcome to the CIA, kid.
And when you're going to do a day trip or something, you take your kids to the Luna Park or whatever, and you're taking some crazy way, she says, where are you going?
And the answer is, well, I don't want anybody to shoot us on the way there.
And that's like a legitimate fear.
It's a problem.
Yeah.
Well, Americans, that's the $64,000 question right there.
The answer is we don't know because they won't tell us.
You know, years ago when Senator Rand Paul, the Republican from Kentucky, was questioning then Attorney General Eric Holder, I think it was in the Senate Armed Services Committee, he asked Holder directly, does the President of the United States...
have the legal authority to assassinate an American citizen?
And after some hemming and hawing, Holder said yes.
And then he asked a follow-up question.
Does the president have the authority to murder an American citizen on U.S.
soil?
And Holder wouldn't answer the question.
Well, we murdered Anwar al-Awlaki, who was a bad guy, but had never been charged with a crime.
He had never faced his accusers in a court of law.
He had never stood before a jury of his peers.