# Court: White House has no legal duty to justify killing Americans abroad with drone strikes

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 3, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/court-white-house-has-no-legal-duty-to-justify-killing-americans-abroad-with-drone-strikes/645978 "2013-01-03T17:36:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Condescending\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a183cd/32.png) [@Condescending\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Condescending_Robot)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/court-white-house-has-no-legal-duty-to-justify-killing-americans-abroad-with-drone-strikes/645978/60 "2013-01-03T23:11:12Z")

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My argument is that murdering children is bad, giving unlimited power to the President as long as he says the magic word “terrorism” is bad, and that your support of this makes you morally bankrupt. Your argument is a recycled Rudy Giuliani talking point where your answer to anything is NINELEVENINELEVENINELEVEN.

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