The DOJ white paper recently released by NBC news (http://bit.ly/Z3DMit) asserted that the military targeting of U.S. citizens should not be adjudicated by U.S. courts. Specifically, page 10 of the document read:
"Finally, the Department notes that under the circumstances described in this paper, there exists no appropriate judicial forum to evaluate these constitutional considerations."
This petition calls on the administration to explain why either FISA-style courts or a post-facto judicial examination of the military targeting of a U.S. citizen would so adversely impact U.S. national security that such judicial processes should not be employed, despite the civil liberties implications of that decision.