Eric Holder Declares Drone Strikes Against American Citizens on American Soil is ‘Legal’

From the Washington Examiner.

Attorney General Eric Holder can imagine a scenario in which it would be constitutional to carry out a drone strike against an American on American soil, he wrote in a letter to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

“It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States,” Holder replied in a letter yesterday to Paul’s question about whether Obama “has the power to authorize lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without trial.”

Which American citizens, Holder?  Tea Party patriots, Bill of Rights advocates, and outspoken critics of Obama’s socialist tyranny?

Muzzie terrorists, union thugs, Statists, and ‘Occupy’ mobs will probably be exempt.

Paul condemned the idea. “The U.S. Attorney General’s refusal to rule out the possibility of drone strikes on American citizens and on American soil is more than frightening – it is an affront the Constitutional due process rights of all Americans,” he said in a statement.

Holder noted that Paul’s question was “entirely hypothetical [and] unlikely to occur,” but cited the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks as the type of incidents that might provoke such a response.

“Were such an emergency to arise, I would examine the particular facts and circumstances before advising the President on the scope of his authority,” he concluded.

Emergency…like seizing total control of the nation’s communications network, declaring war on rights guaranteed under the Second Amendment, and abuse of executive power.

The Obama regime still has until 2016 to run roughshod over any law they see fit, and the assholes who re-installed the One Who Would Be Dictator, still think he’s just wonderful.