Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was killed in Yemen by a American drone strike in October, 2011 (http://abcn.ws/nsjvRy).
The circumstances surrounding his death have not been addressed publicly by the Obama administration. This petition calls on the administration to publicly discuss the decisions and information which led to Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki's death.
If the administration seeks to argue that those circumstances must remain classified in the name of national security, this petition calls on the administration to address the civil liberties implications of that argument. If the circumstances surrounding the lethal targeting of U.S. citizens are not public information, does such a situation make violations of the Bill of Rights more likely?