“Does that only apply to a U.S. citizen that’s overseas, or does that apply to a U.S. citizen that’s here?” Rep. Kevin Yoder asked then FBI Director Mueller about an order from Attorney General Eric holder authorizing the assassination of Americans fighting on the side of “terrorists.”
“I’d have to go back, I’m not certain whether that was addressed or not,” Mueller replied. [More]
This is the guy determining the fitness of others to govern? Not that the power interests and their wholly-owned creatures like Thom Tillis and Lindsey Graham want this exchange remembered...
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I’d like some context on this tiny sound bite.
All I hear Mueller saying here for sure is that he would have to go back to research whether HOLDER’S ORDER covered the killing of American citizens on American soil. Not whether he agreed with it, not whether he thought it was constitutional, and not whether he intended to do it. And quite possibly, not even a possible interpretation that crossed his mind when he originally read it, which would explain why he would have to go back and research it.
Holder’s order was written to authorize the killing of Americans on foreign soil, which in my mind already makes him a constitutional criminal; but if it was also written sloppily as to apply to American soil, then it is again Holder who is the culprit here, not necessarily Mueller.
Now, maybe some other stuff Mueller said before or after this signified some level of agreement with what Holder ordered, but you can’t infer that from this response.
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