n 2010, President Obama directed the CIA
to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, despite
the fact that he had never been charged with (let alone convicted of)
any crime, and the agency successfully carried out that order a year
later with a September 2011 drone strike. While that assassination created widespread debate — the once-again-beloved ACLU sued Obama to restrain him from the assassination on the ground of due process and then, when that suit was dismissed, sued Obama again after the killing was carried out —
another drone killing carried out shortly thereafter was perhaps even
more significant yet generated relatively little attention.
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