White House: ‘No American citizen will ever be targeted’

Published January 31, 2017 7:26pm ET



American citizens will never be the targets of counterterrorism operations, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday.

“No American citizen will ever be targeted,” Spicer said in response to questions about the reported death of the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen and al Qaeda leader who was killed five years ago.

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