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White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret #DomesticTerrorist List

The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its #NSPM7 list — even while answering our other queries.

by Nick Turse, December 12 2025, 2:02 p.m.

"Rebecca Ingber, a former State Department lawyer, notes that while the designated terrorist organization label as a targeting authority is 'entirely manufactured,' the administration is relying on it to summarily execute people in the boat strikes, making their application of the terrorist label on the domestic front especially concerning. 'Many of us have warned that there seems to be no legal limiting principle to the Administration’s claims of authority to use force and to kill people,' Ingber, now a law professor at Cardozo Law School in New York, told The Intercept. 'This is one of the many reasons it is so important that Congress push back on the President’s claim that he can simply label transporting drugs an armed attack on the United States and then claim the authority to summarily execute people on that basis.' "

Archived version:
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