I don't want the Justice Department overseeing military operations. There is a military justice system to prosecute members who use military force illegally. For the higher level folks (the president and the secretaries), the Congress and the People are supposed to provide that check. If the president abuses his military authority illegally against non-combatant civilians, it is up to Congress to try and punish him. If they won't do that, it is up to the electorate to do something about them and the president. If that effort fails...well, the words, "When in the course of Human Events...," come to mind. (I still hope it does not come to that.)
However, complaining about the president exercising his proper authority to target enemy combatants, wherever they are, including on US soil, or saying that the Justice Department should pass on all such targeting is ridiculous and flies in the face of the Constitution.
If and when the president, his secretaries, or his officers illegally use that military force against civilians in the US who are not part of the defined enemy that the military is fighting, then the systems in place for punishing those actions, none of which involve civilian courts or the DOJ, should be used.
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