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my boss. >> in april of 2010 expressing some degree of concern about this proposed hardening on american systems and at that.we had very little information about why he was being targeted and what process had been taken in the executive branch and what they were proposing to comply with or proposing to judicial process it had in mind for these kinds of killings. as opposed to that letter, the administration would suggest it should be more forthcoming about his policies. >> let's get into the merits of the lost suit. >> in may of 2101 of my
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colleagues and i went to yemen to meet with the father of the guy who the in government intended to kill and we met with him and he's a very interesting guy. we spent a lot of time in the united states, he got his phd here. he had gone back to yemen where he became the president and the minister of agriculture in yemen very close many ties to that he had the sun to become public enemy number one. he was very conflicted about this situation, his loyalty was to his son. he said to us can it possibly be right that the government can
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target my son like this without presenting any evidence or formally saying what he is accused of because at that time all we had for the leaks to the media. we agree with them. it doesn't seem right to us either but when we got back to the us we put together this lawsuit to essentially ask the court to weigh in on the scope of the government's authority to use legal force against an american citizen. we file that suit in the summer of 2010. >> you lost that suit as i recall, and the standing ground. the mac it was an office statement for lawsuits. >> you lost that lawsuit and he was eventually targeted and killed and a month or week later he would his son was killed and
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then you brought another lawsuit and then we'll talk about that. >> the collateral damage his son was killed in the strike. the government has never explained what that strike was meant to do. or who they were targeting the leaks to the media has suggested that the 16 -year-old american kid was killed in a separate strike and the government has never provided an on the record account for that strike. you can watch this and other programs online @booktv .org this is book tv for television for serious readers. this is our primetime live up national book foundation executive director lisa lucas offers her thoughts on books and publishing world. on book tvs "after words" program at 9:00 p.m. eastern, author and journalist sophia and nelson reflect on the founding fathers call for you unified
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