The ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) are suing Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner over the government’s decision to put radical Muslim cleric Anwar Awlaki on a hit list and freeze his U.S. assets.
Awlaki, a U.S. citizen now living in Yemen, has been linked to the Fort Hood shootings, the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest 253 and the failed car bombing of Times Square. He is on a U.S. intelligence hit list, and has already survived at least one cruise missile strike. In July, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) formally labeled Awlaki a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” so that it could freeze his assets.
Last month Awlaki’s father Nasser Al-Awlaki asked the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights to challenge the government’s placement of his son on a list of US Citizens that can be assassinated by US forces and intelligence services for ties to terrorism.
via ACLU Sues U.S. Government Over Awlaki’s Hit List Designation – ABC News.
