Have civilians ever been tried in US military courts?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/10/bradley-manning-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning#Detention
It doesn't matter if he's tried in a civilian or military court, if he's tortured or otherwise subjected to inhumane treatment and if he is not likely to receive a fair trial then he should flee.
Edit: typo
I'll refer to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6107997 for the rest.
As far as we know.
Remember, we are now in an age where we do not know what our government is doing. In fact, we're not allowed to know what it's doing, or even why we're not allowed to know.
Smart money shouldn't bet that this is the only actual occurrence.
Yes, anything else is pure speculation. Wars have started because of speculation like that.
> Remember, we are now in an age where we do not know what our government is doing.
That's naive. We are not now in such an age, it has always been like this. We are now in an age where it's far easier to know what is going on. Things aren't getting worse. They aren't getting less transparent. Read your history if you think the government was more transparent in decades past. It wasn't.
We've done far, far worse than target Al Awlaki. Hell, if that's our biggest concern, we are doing well.