The state assassination of a US citizen foretold

...Monday's revelation that the White House is once again preparing to carry out the illegal murder of an American citizen gives an entirely new and sinister meaning to President Obama's campaign slogan, "Yes we can."

Indeed, if the government can order the state assassination of a US citizen in the name of national security, what can it not do? Concentration camps (a remedy recently justified by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia), torture, disappearances, martial law, the suspension of the Constitution—all the methods of a police state dictatorship become equally justifiable and possible.

The apparent purpose of the Obama administration's calculated leak is to blunt popular opposition to an illegal state murder by creating a phony aura of "due process," "transparency" and careful deliberation for a criminal operation that is steeped in secrecy, conspiracy and contempt for core constitutional principles....

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/02/12/pers-f12.html