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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Jeffrey Toobin and Ryan Lizza on Obama, targeted killing and spying on American citizens.

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Barack, Washington, Wickenden, News, Obama, Politics, Wnyc, Lizza, President

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2014

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Jeffrey Toobin and Ryan Lizza on Obama, targeted killing and spying on American citizens.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

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It's Thursday, May 22nd. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

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This week, the Obama administration agreed to release a classified memo

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from 2010 that authorized the killing of an American terror suspect overseas. The decision

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came as the Senate took up the nomination of David Barron for a seat on the U.S. Court of

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Appeals. It was Barron who wrote the memo when he worked in the Justice Department in

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Obama's first term.

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I rise today to say that there is no legal precedent for killing American citizens not involved

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