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[–] Are_we_sure 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Your analysis is puerile and facile and dishonest. It's not a hit list at all and it doesn't apply to American citizens. It only applies to

U.S. Citizens who are Senior Operational Leaders of Al Qa’ida or An Associated Force

The document is actually a serious attempt wrestle with a very serious issue: what do you do when an American leads a stateless terror group like Al Qaida and is seriously threatening the US and is beyond the reach of US law. It's an attempt to construct a moral and legal framework around the drone program and the threat of terrorists operating in fiefdoms or failed states. It's actually an attempt to place limits on drone warfare and ensure it follows the laws of war.

In fact the document is titled

Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen who is a Senior Operational Leader of Al Qa’ida or An Associated Force.”

This does not apply to American citizens in general.

This only applies to

U.S. citizens who is a senior operational leader of al-Qa'ida or an associated force

who pose an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States

whose capture is infeasible

and the US has to keep monitoring to see this changes and they can be captured. This can't happen in the US and only applies to war zones and failed states and terrorist fiefdoms

and the operation must be within the laws of war.

Here's what the document says

Here the Department of Justice concludes only that where the following three conditions are met, a U.S. operation using lethal force in a foreign country against a U.S. citizen who is a senior operational leader of al-Qa'ida or an associated force would be lawful: (1) an informed, high-level official of the U.S. government has determined that the targeted individual poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States; (2) capture is infeasible, and the United States continues to monitor whether capture becomes feasible; and (3) the operation would be conducted in a manner consistent with applicable law of war principles. This conclusion is reached with recognition of the extraordinary seriousness of a lethal operation by the United States against a U.S. citizen, and also of the extraordinary seriousness of the threat posed by senior operational al Qa'ida members and the loss of life that would result were their operations successful.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/020413_DOJ_White_Paper.pdf

I don't consider killing a terrorist who poses active threat to the US because they can't be arrested to evil and who has joined a group that has declared war on America and I'm sure a lot of other folks agree with that.

You can debate the morality/ethics/limitations of this policy, but ignoring the complexities of the problem it is trying to address is morally dishonest.