How Obama Decides Your Fate If He Thinks You're a Terrorist - A decision tree

How Obama Decides Your Fate If He Thinks You're a Terrorist - Daniel Byman & Benjamin Wittes - The Atlantic: Over the past two years, the Obama administration has begun to formalize a so-called "disposition matrix" for suspected terrorists abroad: a continuously evolving database that spells out the intelligence on targets and various strategies, including contingencies, for handling them. Although the government has not spelled out the steps involved in deciding how to treat various terrorists, a look at U.S. actions in the past makes evident a rough decision tree.