“‘It says ‘any informed high-level U.S. government official can strip an American of his or her constitutional protections and order the killing of that American if the person is overseas, if it’s difficult to arrest that person,’ said Napolitano, explaining that the memo does not clearly define what ‘imminent danger’ to the United States means. ‘This is the power claimed by kings and tyrants. This is about as un-American a power as one could imagine,’ he said.”
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