'Essayist Tom Junod's latest masterpiece, "The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama," grapples at length with the unprecedented assassination program that the United States has waged since 2009. "Your lethality is expansive in both practice and principle; you are fighting terrorism with a policy of preemptive execution, and claiming not just the legal right to do so but the legal right to do so in secret," the piece, addressed to the president himself, states.

"The American people, for the most part, have no idea who has been killed, and why; the American people -- and for that matter, most of their representatives in Congress -- have no idea what crimes those killed in their name are supposed to have committed, and have been told that they are not entitled to know."'

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