Due process?
The guy was a bleedin' terrorist. See: "Awlaki's Operational Role in al Qaeda."
And Kenneth Anderson's quoted:
My view of this targeted killing is straightforwardly, congratulations, Mr. President. What has been visible publicly leaves little or no doubt in my mind that Al-Aulaqi was deeply involved in AQAP in operations, and indeed at the highest levels.
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Going to Congress to remove his citizenship would have been no hardship for the executive branch, tring him in absentia to get a death sentence would have been no hardship for the executive branch. The targeted killing of an American by unilateral decision of the executive branch set a precedent that we should all take extremely seriously and ask who next and how low will this or a future President set the bar for eliminating us.
Michael Gene
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