administration tightened its own rules. last may. forced by factors such as "the new york times" report about president obama's secret kill list and rand paul's filibuster on drones last march. under the new policy, american suspects can only be killed by the military, not the cia, which has yet to hand over the drone program to the pentagon. but in the same may speech, when the president announced changes to the drone program, he talked about justification for killing american terrorists abroad. >> i do not believe it would be constitutional for the government to target and kill any u.s. citizen with a drone or with a shotgun without due process. but when a u.s. citizen goes abroad to wage war against america, his citizenship should no more serve as a shield than a sniper shooting down on an innocent crowd should be protected by a s.w.a.t. team. >> now, the president was not