Sen. Rand
Paul (R-Ky.) has called on the Obama administration to publicly
disclose its legal justifications for the claimed power to order
the killing, without trial or hearing, of U.S. citizens abroad who
are suspected of being terrorist leaders planning attacks against
the United States. Paul’s criticism of the targeted killing program
and his insistence that the Obama administration make the Barron
memos available to the public has nothing to do with defending
terrorists, writes Chris Edelson, a professor and researcher who
specializes in presidential power. To the contrary, he is rightly
standing up for the principle that secret law has no place in a
constitutional democracy, and that even U.S. citizens who are
clearly no angels cannot be killed on the basis of unproven
claims.
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