Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Not sure what you mean by 'iffy'. It is very much a real law unless and until repealed or overturned. A crappy law, to be sure, but real.
And I presume you have evidence that no requests were made of the crappy, secret court we're not allowed to know the happenings of? Or are you making a bald-faced unsupported assertion?
Admittedly, I can show no evidence they did follow their crappy law, but since there appears to be no reason not to follow it since they don't have to face immediate public scrutiny of it and the consequences of not following it could be dire when a non-idealogy-aligned government comes into power, Occam's Razor would suggest they did follow their crappy law.
The law may not allow what they said it allows. That's the iffy portion. We have the memo from Holder which was used to authorize the attack. If Obama had actually followed procedure, he'd have said he did so in an effort to reduce the condemnation he received for murdering an American citizen with a drone. He wouldn't have shown the court papers, but he'd have said that he went and got authorization from a courts to do what he did. Obama has a pattern of passing the buck whenever he can and he couldn't do that here.