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The Newsroom · Season 1, Episode 15

Will, Charlie and others in “Unfinished Business”

Look, I'm trying real hard to care the Al-Awlaki is dead, but I-

I don't care that he's dead. I care that we killed him. Without a trial, or anything resembling due process.

You can't switch teams, declare your intention to kill as many Americans as possible, and not expect to be treated as an enemy of the state.

And you can't be found to be an enemy of the state without a trial.

John Dillinger said the problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have the protection of it.

That doesn't sound like Dillinger.

Yeah, it may have been someone else.

Federal Agents tried to arrest Dillinger coming out of a movie theater, and when he pulled a gun, they shot him. They didn't hit the theater with a rocket.

Al-Awlaki was the head of AQAP. He doesn't get read Miranda. I don't give a shit what his passport says.

You don't.

And you know all those times the two of you ask me why I'm a Republican, as if that's something that needs an explanation?

I don't know what the hell you're on about...

I have never heard either of you ask anyone why they're a Democrat. Well it's right here. The purposeful suspension of common sense.

Treason is a crime, you have to be found guilty of it before you can be punished.

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