A soft police state

"Who the hell is David Barron?", writes Richard Cohen, Washington Post. He is the one who signed off on the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, "a very bad guy but, still, an American citizen. Barron was a U.S. government lawyer", one of two lawyers in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel who in 2010 composed an approximately 50-page memo saying it was legally permissible to kill Awlaki even though he was a U.S. citizen and had not been convicted of so much as a traffic violation."We live in a soft police state", says Cohen