Why they aren’t already rotting corpses is beyond me.
Via The Blaze:
In a classified meeting on Capitol Hill, Army General Martin E. Dempsey told House members that he does not have legal power to strike the perpetrators of the deadly Benghazi attacks.
At least one Republican representative thinks that needs to change — now.
Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, is drafting legislation that would authorize military and intelligence operatives to kill the terrorists who attacked the U.S. diplomatic mission and CIA base in Benghazi and killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, in 2012.
“Four Americans were killed in the Benghazi attacks and the administration makes the point that there’s no authority to take action if ever needed. Frankly, it’s a cop-out,” Joe Kasper, Hunter’s deputy chief of staff, told TheBlaze.
“It’s a weak excuse, but if the administration says it needs authority, let them tell the American people, regardless of whether it’s ever used, that they don’t need it or want it,” he said.
Hunter, a former Marine with one Afghanistan and two Iraq deployments under his belt, is drafting authorization language that would give the Obama administration the same kill authority it now has for members of Al Qaeda.