Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites in this Nov. 8, 2010, image. He was killed in a US drone strike in Yemen. (SITE Intelligence Group/AP/File)
7:25 pm ET -The ACLU and New York Times had sought access to government documents explaining the legal justification for a US drone strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen and suspected Al Qaeda operative in Yemen.
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