If You Are A Terrorist, This Is How The U.S. Determines Your Fate
How Obama Decides Your Fate If He Thinks You're a Terrorist -- Daniel Byman and Benjamin Wittes, The Atlantic
A look inside the "disposition matrix" that determines when -- or if -- the administration will pursue a suspected militant.
Over the past two years, the Obama administration has begun to formalize a so-called "disposition matrix" for suspected terrorists abroad: a continuously evolving database that spells out the intelligence on targets and various strategies, including contingencies, for handling them. Although the government has not spelled out the steps involved in deciding how to treat various terrorists, a look at U.S. actions in the past makes evident a rough decision tree.
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My Comment: The complete flowchart that is used to determine the status of a terror suspect is here. It appears that #13 (lethal force) is the most popular one for this administration.
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