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WASHINGTON — The government issued a license Wednesday enabling private lawyers to challenge the constitutionality of the CIA’s targeting of alleged terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen hiding in Yemen.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights had gone to court to challenge what they say was a refusal by the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control to allow the representation.
Earlier this year, al-Awlaki was placed on a CIA list of alleged terrorists to be killed or captured. The license will allow the attorneys to provide free legal services to al-Awlaki’s father, Nasser, their client in the case they want to bring.
