No longer secret - US policy for assassination of American citizens

Isn't this a fine how-do-you-do?  Ron Paul addressing the House about the disclosed, yet still secret, policy on killing US citizens at the governments discretion.  This sets a bad precident.

If tyranny and oppression ever come to this land, it will be under the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
--James Madison

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
--Benjamin Franklin