Obamas Drone Strike Policy: This Is the Power Claimed by Kings and Tyrantsselfnews Post Suddenly it shows up in an NBC newsroom earlier this week! It could only have come from a governmental source. So they really have made fools of the federal judges whove spent hours and days and weeks struggling over the laws involved here, said Napolitano, who called the document itself breathtaking and chilling because of the power it grants the government. It says any informed high-level U.S. government official can strip an American of his or her constitutional protections and order the killing of that American if the person is overseas, if its difficult to arrest that person, said Napolitano, explaining that the memo does not clearly define what imminent danger to the United States means. This is the power claimed by kings and tyrants. This is about as un-American a power as one could imagine, he said. linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 