It has been learned that Anwar Awlaki's father, Dr. Nasser al-Awlaki, a U.S. educated scholar (probably paid by us taxpayers) has made a number of phone calls to attorneys in the United States from Yemen, according to NPR:
...The Awlaki pere was making the calls to key U.S. attorneys, NPR has learned, to see if he could mount a case on behalf of his American-born son against the U.S. government. By his account, the Obama administration has unfairly targeted the younger Awlaki by putting him on a CIA "capture or kill" list. By doing that, the administration has essentially green-lighted Anwar al-Awlaki's assassination — without filing any charges or having a court weigh the evidence in the case."This is an instance where the executive branch is claiming the power to go ahead and kill Awlaki without going through anything that resembles the traditional legal process," said New York University Law professor Sam Rascoff. "It essentially amounts to going right to the death penalty phase of a case without ever bringing it to a jury — and that ought to give us pause."
...Awlaki was born in New Mexico 39 years ago, when his father was on a scholarship to study in the U.S. Anwar al-Awlaki grew up in the U.S., studied engineering in U.S. universities and eventually became a rather prominent imam in Virginia and San Diego. Then, shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, he left the U.S. and became a fixture on the Internet, preaching to young Muslims in English.
Shortly after the phone calls were made by his father, al-Awlaki was designated a terrorist by the U.S. Treasury Department and then formally recognized by the U.N. as a member of al-Qaeda, just days later.
An indictment could be next. And in my opinion, he should also be charged with treason.
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