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It Isn’t the Government Any More

Jacob Hornberger is understatedly upset about the recent murder of the 16-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, the son of Anwar al-Awlaki. Hornberger writes: There are several things that are especially fascinating about the U.S. government’s assassination of this American teenager, who apparently traveled to Yemen looking for his father before his father was assassinated:First, the U.S. government has assassinated a minor. Second, no one except the assassins knows why they assassinated the boy. Third, the people who planned and carried out the assassination — from President Obama, to the Pentagon, to the CIA — aren’t talking. Fourth, nobody can force them to…

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