John Kiriakou

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.

We just decided we didn't like his politics.

And so we blew him up.

And then a week later, we blew up his 16-year-old son and 16-year-old nephew, also American citizens.

They had never been accused of a crime.

So either we're going to be a nation of laws.

or we're not going to be a nation of laws.

We have to choose, but we can't pretend to be the one while really being the other.