This may be reading too much into a few words but it bears watching. From Salon.com, “How many Americans are targeted for assassination?”:
Dozens of Americans have joined terrorist groups and are posing a threat to the United States and its interests abroad, the president’s most senior adviser on counterterrorism and homeland security said Thursday. . . . “There are, in my mind, dozens of U.S. persons who are in different parts of the world, and they are very concerning to us,” said John O. Brennan, deputy White House national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism. . . .
“If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response,” Mr. Brennan said. “If an American person or citizen is in a Yemen or in a Pakistan or in Somalia or another place, and they are trying to carry out attacks against U.S. interests, they also will face the full brunt of a U.S. response. And it can take many forms.”
See also Congress Proposes Bill to Allow Worldwide War … Including INSIDE the U.S.
It’s may be important to note that exercise certain, perhaps any, rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights could cause you to be considered a “low level terrorist” and the DOJ, FBI, and JTTF will consider it justification to be watching you.
Via email from former co-worker Chet.
Below is the full text of section 1034 of HR 1540. I didn’t see the issues the ACLU raised in the text, but of course I’m not a lawyer and some lawyers seem to be able to find interesting things in the constitution that aren’t there as well as ignoring things that are clearly there.
Can any one enlighten me?
Well the whole world is a battlefield. And the non-Americans have been having a run at me since I was a teenager living in Turkey. Two Libyan intelligence operatives tried to put an RPG into a DODDSS bus wandering around Ankara. Since then I’ve picked up tails in Indonesia (never ever show up at an embassy unless you have to ….), gotten in trouble in the UAE, Singapore (another set of tails from JI this time) and in various -stans …
And I do telecom networks for a living not anything special. So the whole world is a battlefield and no question about it. Now if I could only carry concelaed overseas I’d be safe.