Striking Out

The story of the events leading up to the drone strike that killed U.S. citizen and Al Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki and two others gives us a window into the politics and legal machinations that so far have gone into homing in on targets and justifying these actions: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/world/middleeast/anwar-al-awlaki-a-us-citizen-in-americas-cross-hairs.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&hp&adxnnlx=1362942093-jzLmonT5OzFv/tUREG8aPg