"If the disposal of people's freedom and dignity on the basis of secret and uncontestable information is the sine qua non of the power of kings, so much more so is the power to dispose of their lives*... to claim infallibility and deny evidence to the contrary, and to stonewall requests for information about who is classified as killable
and why, is outrageous. -- Lisa Hajjar
*John Yoo extends that to the power to torture, saying "If we are entitled to kill people, we must be entitled to injure them."
graphic c/o American Free Press