Colbert On Targeted Killing: “Due Process Just Means There’s A Process That You Do”

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On Tuesday, Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert took on Attorney General Eric Holder’s legal justification for killing American citizens abroad suspected of terrorism, particularly Holder’s argument that “due process and judicial process are not one and the same.”

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“Trial by jury, trial by fire, rock, paper scissors, who cares? Due process just means that there is a process that you do,” Colbert said. “The current process is apparently, first the president meets with his advisers and decides who he can kill. Then he kills them.”

Pretty much.

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