Meet Jeh Johnson: Drone Lawyer and Obama’s Homeland Security Nominee
Johnson also suggested that U.S. citizens could be targeted in strikes in a February 2012 speech at Yale Law School. “Belligerents who also happen to be U.S. citizens do not enjoy immunity where noncitizen belligerents are valid military objectives,” Johnson said. In the same speech, Johnson pushed the Obama administration’s legal rationale for the targeted-killing program…