commie wrote:
The Americans are now one step removed from allowing the president to order the assassination of citizens within US borders.

I think we're already there. Did you catch this at the hearings confirming John Brennan as head of the CIA?
The man whom the administration has put up to head the CIA would not say whether or not the president of the United States has the power to order the extrajudicial killing of a United States citizen within the borders of the United States... And the hearing, remarkably, went on as though nothing untoward had happened.