CBS News‘ Scott Pelley appears to be one of the very few
American journalists bothered by, or even interested in, the fact that
President Obama has asserted and exercised the power to target U.S.
citizens for execution-by-CIA without a shred of due process and far
from any battlefield. It was Pelley who deftly interrogated the GOP presidential candidates at a November debate about the
propriety of due-process-free assassinations, prompting Newt Gingrich,
Mitt Romney, and Michele Bachmann to applaud President Obama for
assassinating U.S. citizen Anwar Awlaki
