This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, June 4th, 2012. I'm Caleb Brown. Say what you will about President

Obama, but he sure does seem to order the killing of a whole lot of people without

due process, many of whom we can't identify, some of whom are American citizens, in countries

were not officially fighting.

The picture now emerging about how the executive branch

unilaterally chooses its drone strike targets is a deeply troubling one.

So says Julian Sanchez, a research fellow at the Cato Institute. This is from

a. F. S missiles killed 15 militants in Pakistan's Taliban and al Qaeda

stronghold of North Waziristan on Monday, the third drone strike in three days and the deadliest

this year. Eight drone strikes have been reported in Pakistan since May 23rd. The same number

is in the previous four months and Mondays was the deadliest since 18th

Pakistani Taliban were reported killed on November 18th

never of 16th 2011 security official said 15 militants were killed in a

dawn strike in a compound the bodies of those killed were unable to be identified.

The President of the United States has decided that it is ultimately his call, which I believe

is supposed to be of some comfort that he is making these decisions himself

and not anyone else is being charged with making these decisions for him.

But at the same time you have the president deciding

to kill people in other countries, some of which are American citizens, without any

form of due process whatsoever.

Yeah, the extraordinary has become routine and it is hard to imagine a starker illustration of the

contrast between the rule of law and the rule of men and the now weekly Tuesday kill meetings

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