New CIA Chief Hit Man
Obama’s Drone Ranger!
On Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013 the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee held a confirmation hearing for John Brennan to be CIA director. Brennan has been the mastermind behind U.S. lethal drone attacks, that have included the deaths of children, and American citizens. Brennan is currently Obama’s chief counter-terrorism adviser. Obama wanted to appoint Brennan as director of the CIA back in 2008. Brennan, however, pulled his name from consideration because of his controversial support for torture and extraordinary rendition to other countries where torture is commonplace and federal and international laws do not apply. Below are two questions of John Brennan posed by Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange and Code Pink. For more questions posed to Brennan see http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/05-5
Also see http://www.kereport.com/2013/02/05/bordering-scary-nbc-news/ on killing of American citizens
1. The majority of prisoners incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay were found to be innocent and were released. These individuals landed in Guantanamo as victims of mistaken identity or as a result of bounties for their capture. How likely is it that the intelligence that gets a person killed by a drone strike may be as faulty as that which put innocent individuals in Guantanamo?
2. You have stated that there is little evidence drone strikes are causing widespread anti-American sentiment or recruits for extremist groups. Do you stand by this statement now, as we have seen an expansion of Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula, possibly triple the number that existed when the drone strikes began? Do you have concerns about the “blowback” caused by what General McChrystal has called a “visceral hatred” of U.S. drones?
Can the U.S. Murder U.S. Civilians in Drone Strikes?
Obama says “Yes We Can!”
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