Maybe it’s true. But it’s worth noting that the Obama administration never described Awlaki this way until after it killed him. And it’s not like the U.S. has a detailed organizational chart of any of these terrorist groups…

Again, never defined. And a fact under dispute.

Keep an eye on this term. It never appears in the basic legislative text that authorizes the “war on terrorism.” The Obama administration defines it as mean a group that’s “co-belligerent” with al-Qaida. But that raises as many questions as it answers. There’s levels to this shit…

The Obama administration has never defined what a “senior operational leader” of al-Qaida is. But no one has ever accused the three Americans “not intentionally targeted” of rising to that level.

Except that Holder said that some of these citizens aren’t targeted, but killed accidentally. Note the slight-of-hand here.

An extraordinary admission from Holder. The attorney general just said that three out of the four Americans killed in drone strikes – well, “counterterrorism operations,” but he means drone strikes – were not killed intentionally.

Were they killed in so-called “signature strikes,” where the U.S. kills people based on observed patterns-of-life that look like “terrorist” behavior? Were they collateral damage from other strikes? Cases of mistaken identity? Holder doesn’t say. But this boils down to admitting that the administration killed three U.S. citizens, without due process, that it did not mean to kill. One of them was a 16-year old.