Obama has a direct disincentive, if not outright disinterest, to pursue any form of accountability for all of the relentless assaults on human life. And through a belt of process that obamma wraps the counterterrorism enterprise in, it is able to convince itself that it is operating in a more restrained and more lawful way. It is just Operating in a more bureaucratically rutinized way that is not in any sense more lawful or moral.