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Congress Drags Feet on Obama’s ‘License to Kill’

But even Cornyn’s proposal – so far the boldest check on the President’s dictatorial powers of due-process free assassinations of American citizens – wouldn’t require the administration to disclose the memo to the public, only to Congressional committees in secret. And even if it managed to pass, the administration would undoubtedly claim executive privilege and stop the legislatures checks on its power in their tracks.

So the system of checks and balances on power and authority supposedly inherent in the Constitution appears to be an antiquated tool in the US government. Equally obsolete is the notion that it is any of the American people’s business how and why their President manages to kill their fellow citizens.