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I would hardly classify anything I said in the post you quoted as "uproar". Concern... yes.
Nonsense
Rand, and many DPers' have been practically rending their garments because they mistakenly believe that Holder is going to target people who are merely suspected of being terrorists. Their whines have been accompanied with rants about how this is somehow unconstitutional (which is wingnut talk for "I don't like it")
"Engaged in combat" is broad enough to bend around just about any situation where the President would take somebody out. What this seems like is a license to kill people with drones when there is real-time intelligence showing that they are engaged in or about to engage in an act of terror. I just hope they use a little more discretion on American soil and American citizens than they use overseas.
N, "engaged in combat" is clear and everyone knows what it means. People are just looking for something to bitch about.