Executive Kill SwitchAfter FBI agents took custody of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, theNigerian who tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight onDecember 25, 2009, they told him he had the right to remain silent.For Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born cleric who allegedly helpedplan Abdulmutallab’s mission, that right was more like anobligation, enforced by Hellfire missiles fired at his carfrom remotely controlled CIA aircraft in northern Yemen at the endof September.President Barack Obama’s policy regardi...

Executive Kill SwitchAfter FBI agents took custody of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the
Nigerian who tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight on
December 25, 2009, they told him he had the right to remain silent.
For Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born cleric who allegedly helped
plan Abdulmutallab’s mission, that right was more like an
obligation, enforced by Hellfire missiles fired at his car
from remotely controlled CIA aircraft in northern Yemen at the end
of September.
President Barack Obama’s policy regardi...