Posted on 04/24/2013 5:47:45 PM PDT by haffast
WASHINGTON -- Democratic and Republican senators joined a former deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Tuesday in urging the Obama administration to make public more information about its top-secret targeted killing program amid questions about the legality and effectiveness of hundreds of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan and elsewhere.
"More transparency is needed to maintain the support of the American people and the international community" for drone strikes, said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., a key Obama ally and the chairman of the Constitution subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The White House refused to send a witness to the Senate's first open hearing on the issue despite President Barack Obama's vow to be more forthcoming about a counterterrorism weapon that has become a despised symbol of U.S. foreign policy in many parts of the world.
"I am disappointed that the administration declined to provide witnesses to testify at today's hearing," Durbin said. His frustration was echoed by several other Democrats and Republicans.
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Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University Law Center professor who served as a Pentagon adviser during the height of the drone strikes, questioned the legality of drone strikes away from active battlefields, saying that the targeted killing policy "is on the verge of doing significant damage to the rule of law."
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Don’t get your hands dirty, Barry.
FUBO
Some members of Congress seem to spend all their time writing letters to BO or begging him for information on all the crap he does. There’s never any meat to really getting the info they need. Lots of begging though.
As long as he is killing terrorists, I don’t care. My liberals friends really rag on him about this.
I daydream about a senate impeachment trial
“No controlling legal authority” as Algore was so fond of saying.
can’t share info with the targets ,that would be silly
Law means nothing to “Hussein - Dictator for Life”. Just forget law and think of raw Islamic hate and that’s what this dictator does to turn this country Islamic because, in my opinion, that is his ultimate goal.
Constitution subcommittee? And, Durbin? I can only imagine what that subcommittee's budget is.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
It continues to unravel.
I think it would be a good idea to start, at the state level, a petition for a 20-year moratorium of the use of armed drones, after a 10-year study as to the right of privacy and warrant-less surveillance.
What happens when Obozo decides you are a terrorist? Don't forget, he GPS'd every front door in the country.
Nothing like being able to kill your enemies, foreign and domestic, by employing an army of script kiddies playing a “first person shooter” game. Rather than MREs and bug juice, keep them full of pizza and Mountain Dew.
The new warriors! I wonder if "pizza and Mountain Dew" will be enough incentive now since Panetta flashed the medal at 'em and then Hagel was forced by public opinion to take it from them.
“What happens when Obozo decides you are a terrorist? “
Sure he will. Just like Clinton put me in a concentration camp during Y2K.
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