Attorney General Eric Holder gave a speech this week, a speech which is the only known public justification for the administration's policy of assassinations of American citizens. The speech may be read in its entirety here. The real justifications are too secret to tell you about, so Holder had to summarize the complex legal arguments and distill them down to their legal essence. For those of you who don't have the time to read the whole speech, allow me to distill the arguments further. Holder's weighty legal analysis boils down to this: "we can do whatever we want, and nobody can tell us otherwise." [More . . . ]