right i mean for there are there are two sort of glaring media errors here in my view one is anwar locky was not the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula most yemen experts people that have spent much time there have reviewed it including former u.s. officials say that he is barely mid-level management with al qaeda he's far more important to the u.s. counterterrorism community than he is to anyone in yemen or anyone in the arab world for that matter secondly though we have an almost an utter lack of discussion in this country to date of the fact that president obama has served as judge jury and executioner of a u.s. citizen i'm not here to defend moral locky or anything that that man did with his life but i am here to say that we should be a nation that follows its own laws and subscribes to the rule of law and we can have our own government assassinate our own citizen on a non declared battlefield where he's not directly engaging with american forces in hostilities that's a sad day for america when we don't have a very rigorous debate about that ideally before we kill our own ci

any means of due process we have to examine some of the other claims that have been made about anwar all locky and his role in al-qaeda here's what president obama had to say about it today. death of a lock is a major blow to al qaeda as most active operational affiliate alok he was the leader of external operations for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. in that role he took the lead in planning and directing efforts to murder innocent americans. now in the past the government is using state secrets privilege to hide any real evidence that they may have about a lock is a legit operational role so why now is it being treated this fact or earlier i caught up with jeremy scahill national security reporter for the nation magazine and author of the book blackwater the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army i first asked him if you have the same reaction that i did to the media coverage today about the lack of questioning about the due process for the killing of an american citizen. but i mean for there are there are two sort of glaring media errors here in my view one is anwar a lockie wa

obama administration they've been doing it in secret so we don't know what besides the killing of anwar locky they've they've used detention language to authorize we don't know that well you know i guess on one hand we hope there will be more transparency out of it but i fortunately now that it's it's a law you know i think it might be a bit of a catch twenty two maybe if it's law then we'll find out more although it legally allows them to do it but then at the same time they kind of got to you know play around behind the scenes and then stretch the language to whatever way they want to but i think that it's a horrible and scary development marci i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight thanks and happy bill of rights day thank you. all right coming up tonight we have some good news about the overall approval of the death penalty here in the u.s. and a new census report that says that one two people are living in poverty or in low income situation keeping that in mind you think the congress be getting somewhere with the payroll tax cut but sadly that's not the case would have detail

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