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Eavesdrop on the phone calls of a U.S. citizen without court order? No.<\/p>\nEavesdrop on the phone calls of a U.S. citizen without court order? No.<\/p>\n
Target a U.S. citizen for assassination<\/i> without court order or trial? No problem!…<\/p>\n “Congress has protected Awlaki’s cellphone calls,”\u009d said Vicki Divoll, a former C.I.A. lawyer who now teaches at the United States Naval Academy. “But it has not provided any protections for his life. That makes no sense.”\u009d<\/p><\/div>\nThe Obama administration’s decision to authorize the killing by the Central Intelligence Agency of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes, a mainstay of the campaign against terrorism.
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\nTo eavesdrop on the terrorism suspect who was added to the target list, the American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is hiding in Yemen, intelligence agencies would have to get a court warrant. But designating him for death, as C.I.A. officials did early this year with the approval of the National Security Council, required no judicial review.<\/p>\n