同样，也没有证据表明过去数年内在正式战区外打死的所谓恐怖分子对美国公民的生命安全造成了直接的威胁，而这种威胁又非得靠预防及预谋性的杀戮来解决不可。
Likewise, there is no evidence that any presumed terrorist who was killed outside of official war zones in the last few years represented a threat so immediate to US citizens’ lives that preventive and premeditated killing was the only option.