Reply #4: This is the Doublethink Bush created. We killed a U.S. citizen because he was a terrorist, which we

[DirkGently]

do not have to explain or prove or provide evidence about, because he is a terrorist, and therefore it's all classified. No different from Guantanamo. We can't tell you what they did, because of what we claim they did.


What's implied here is that for P.R. purposes, the administration claims to have dispatched a known terrorist. Scratch the surface though, and ask for proof, or even evidence, and it's a national security matter that never officially happened. We will eat the cake of terrorist-fighting propaganda, while retaining our scrutiny-free cloak of claimed national security secrecy.


This is the Bush-concocted conceit of unlimited Executive power.

Step 1: Everything we call terrorism is a war. Anywhere, anyone, anytime. It has no borders, it never ends, and combatants are whomever we say.

Step 2: The President can do anything he deems fit to protect the country in a war.

Step 3: None of the above is subject to public review or scrutiny. It's a secret because we say it needs to be secret for reasons which we are keeping secret. Because it's a secret.


Under this rubric, anyone may be killed, and no official reason given. How anyone could for a moment contend that's okay is beyond me.