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Re "A Court for Targeted Killings" (editorial, Feb. 14):
You rightly recognize that judicial review of the Obama administration's targeted killing program is necessary, but a new secret court, using secret evidence, is not the answer.
Our existing federal courts deal every day with national security and terrorism cases while protecting sensitive military and intelligence information. More fundamentally, your "kill court" proposal might be intended to limit the executive branch's claimed killing authority, but threatens instead to legitimize it.
The Obama administration is already relying on unlawfully expansive interpretations of executive power, due process and even what the word "imminent" means.
The way to ensure that the executive's actions are in line with the Constitution, our laws and our values is — as it has always been — for a federal court to decide what the law is and for Congress to exercise meaningful oversight.
To that end, the Obama administration needs to stop hiding the memos including its legal rationale for extrajudicial killing from the courts, Congress and the American public.
HINA SHAMSI
CHRISTOPHER ANDERS
New York, Feb. 16, 2013
The writers are director of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project and the A.C.L.U.'s senior legislative counsel, respectively.
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