Column on White House drone memo draws reader response
On March 27, reader Laurance Strait replied to a Feb. 8 column by Gateway Journalism Review publisher William H. Freivogel with this email: “The reason civil libertarians and others are upset with Obama’s novel extra-judicial killing doctrine in part is in how it has been applied. Your characterization would be more persuasive to me if sitting in a café having breakfast didn’t count as being an ‘imminent threat’ that is ‘in the battlefield.’ As those facts are rather well known, I don’t really know how to read this post as anything but intentionally Orwellian.”