“An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaeda is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say, and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to do so legally under its new stricter targeting policy issued last year. The CIA drones watching him cannot strike because he’s a U.S. citizen and the Justice Department must build a case against him, a task it hasn’t completed. Four U.S. officials said the American suspected terrorist is in a country that refuses U.S. military action on its soil and that has proved unable to go after him. And President Barack Obama’s new policy says American suspected terrorists overseas can only be killed by the military, not the CIA, creating a policy conundrum for the White House…”.* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more: U.S. Suspect Possibly Targeted for Drone Attack | TIME.com http://nation.time.com/2014/02/10/u-s-suspect-possibly-targeted-for-drone-attack/#ixzz2syfqKuac

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