The US keeps trying to kill journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem, because he is on the drone assassination list. He is suing to get taken off the list.
The US government response is to pretend not to know what is going on and that there is no issue to discuss.
Abdul Kareem is an Islamist. That means he advocates imposing the rules of his religion, in a grave assault on human rights. You could see the results of this in places such as Iran, Salafi Arabia, and Pakistan. I oppose him on this.
But reporters should not be killed for their political views, regardless of whether they are US citizens as is Abdul Kareem.
Long ago, the US used to declare some criminals "wanted, dead or alive". That was announced publicly in court after a decision made by human beings. Nowadays, the US awards the designation of "kill him, plus any number of bystanders" in secret based on decisions by algorithms.
The fact that human pilots operate the drones and fire missiles at designated targets, even though those are not engaged in violence at the time (and perhaps not ever, but the pilots can't tell), is no protection against what is in effect an automated killing machine.
We must put an end to that system entirely.