{"id":5632,"date":"2013-10-26T09:42:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/?p=5632"},"modified":"2014-03-12T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T23:02:11","slug":"obama-nominates-assassination-legalizer-david-barron-to-appellate-court-through-the-looking-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/obama-nominates-assassination-legalizer-david-barron-to-appellate-court-through-the-looking-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Nominates Assassination Legalizer David Barron to Appellate Court &#8211; Through the Looking Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5638\" style=\"width: 98px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Barron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5638\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5638\" alt=\"David Barron - Assassination Legalizer\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Barron.jpg\" width=\"88\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>David Barron<\/strong> &#8211; Assassination Legalizer<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><strong>Infamous Executive Branch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2013\/09\/24\/question-what-do-david-barron-and-jay-bybee-have-in-common\/#sthash.kA98tEFh.dpuf\">&#8220;Assassination Legal Memo&#8221; author David Barron was nominated to the First Circuit Appeals Court<\/a> to be a lifetime appointed Judge by Barak Obama yesterday.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>David Barron<\/strong> authored the notorious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/agency\/doj\/olc\/\">Office of Legal Counsel<\/a> memos<strong> authorizing the assassination of an American citizen with zero due process<\/strong> &#8211; no court case was ever decided, no charges were ever even filed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The memo contradicts centuries of <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>American Justice<\/strong> by providing cover for any President or the <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>CIA<\/strong> to murder anyone the president decides needs execution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary:<\/strong><br \/>\nWill someone explain to me how this is any different than the Red Queen in Alice&#8217;s &#8220;Through the Looking Glass&#8221; decreeing &#8220;Off with their Heads&#8221; or a Dictator murdering opponents at a whim ?<\/p>\n<p>References:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2013\/09\/24\/question-what-do-david-barron-and-jay-bybee-have-in-common\/#sthash.kA98tEFh.dpuf\">Question: What Do David Barron and Jay Bybee Have in Common ?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/feb\/05\/obama-kill-list-doj-memo\">Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/obama-vs-bush-who-is-more-right-wing\/\">Bush vs. Obama: Who is More Wrong-Wing ?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infamous Executive Branch &#8220;Assassination Legal Memo&#8221; author David Barron was nominated to the First Circuit Appeals Court to be a lifetime appointed Judge by Barak Obama yesterday. David Barron authored the notorious Office of Legal Counsel memos authorizing the assassination &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/obama-nominates-assassination-legalizer-david-barron-to-appellate-court-through-the-looking-glass\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5632"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6070,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632\/revisions\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}