"Actually I'd have thought that, if the American government is going to start killing people it thinks might be hostile, it should start with its own - there's a better case to be argued arguing that it has some over-riding right of life and death over its own citizens, as against the rest of us."

On reflection, maybe it's a case of no representation with out taxation?

Actually, I hope I'm wrong. It's just the way all the talk of covert actions and overt attacks (cruise missles) strikes me. Part of it is as Tenet described it earlier today where the FBI is constrained by the Constitution in domestic affairs, the CIA isn't in international affairs. Not too surprising since the same is said of MI6.