Would John Brennan be Obama’s Homeland Security Advisor right now if Americans knew the full extent of his role in targeting Americans for illegal wiretapping?

An Alabama moran [sic] of a geometry teacher used the example of assassinating President Barack Obama as a way to teach angles to his geometry students.

The WaPo clarifies an earlier Reuters report (which was unclear that this pertained to CIA) that Anwar al-Awlaki has been added to the CIA’s kill list, after having been on JSOC’s kill list for some months. Does it strike you as odd that we’re targeting US citizens with no judicial process? Does it strike you as odd that we’ve got two entirely separate sets of list on which Americans can be targeted to be killed? Does it strike you as odd that we’ve now got an apparent turf battle over who gets to kill al-Awlaki?

Michael Furlong, the guy running this show, was ostensibly engaged in strategic information, collecting information on Afghanistan’s social structure. But in fact, he was using that money to employ freelancers who, at a minimum, were targeting Afghans for assassination.

It would seem unnecessary to kill a guy for planning the Cole bombing if you knew you had the suspect who planned the Cole bombing in custody. But claiming a tie between him and the Cole bombing might provide the excuse to target a car carrying your real target: Derwish.

WaPo’s Dana Priest’s latest article indicates that somewhere there’s a list of Americans who, the President has determined, can be killed with no due process.

The Washington Post reports that US involvement in Yemen includes attempts to assassinate US citizens in Yemen, and a new joint operations center.